Naya Nuki, Girl Who Ran
Naya Nuki, a Lemhi Shoshone Indian girl from what is now the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, is captured during a raid by the Mandans (of what is now the Dakotas) and finds a way to escape and return to her people. Naya Nuki is eleven years old when she is captured in 1801 along with her best friend Sacagawea, and has lived all her life with her nomadic band of Native Americans. They descend into the valley (near what is now Missoula) during the cold winte...
