This is based on the real disturbing history of the affect of the Dawes Act of 1887. Tribal lands were broken up and redistributed to every man, women and child on the tribal registry - even very young orphans. Disreputable scammers married 10 year old orphans to get their land once it proved to be rich with oil. In 1909, Nessa is one of those children. She and her sister were taken in by the Peele family and abused by the father. Young Olive Peele takes Nessa and runs into the woods where they meet other "elf children". Their lives become complicated and dangerous and folded into the hidded history of Oklahoma. Story number two, Valerie and her young son Charlie are hoping to start a new life in Oklahoma in 1990. She is hired as a park ranger and faces push back from her male counterparts. When she meets a young Choctaw girl named Sydney who is concerned about her brother who is missing and her grandmother who has been sent to a home, the history and mystery combine. Leave it to historical fiction to teach me a real history I may never have known.
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