Sara Elaine Violet

A coming of age tale as old as the wild west.

Taken from her father and her people, a young Sioux girl tries to adapt to life among the people of her mother, the 'white eyes'. Bitter, resentful, untrusting, Kimimela finds herself alone in a world where there seems to be no place for her, a half breed child of a warrior and a white woman. As she grows, is there a choice? When the opportunity arises, and she comes of age, will she return to the land of her father's people, or stay with the new life she's tried to build among the whites?

The Savage Ones

"We have to do something Frank," Mamma's voice drifted up to me in the dark. I had finally been persuaded to return to bed although I could not sleep. My parents thought me sleeping, or they would not be speaking about me now. Without moving, I just listened. 


"What can we do Jenny?" Frank's tone was frustrated, worried. "If she won't tell us what happened, there ain't a blasted thing we can do." 


"I have never seen her so hurt, or so sad...I just can't understand it." Mamma's chair scraped softly as she got up, a second later the gentle clink of dishes sounding in the sink. 


"She's been seein' that Indian boy, Wind Runner," Frank started softly. "Maybe somethin' happened-" 


"Frank!" Mamma instantly hushed her outcry. "Goodness, Frank, you don't think he tried to hurt her?" 


Twenty One