Publisher's Synopsis
As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by
Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries
to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her
father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war
trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a
swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and
fight for the truth of their convictions-even as horror and injustice
unfolds all around them.
Inspired by the true story of the thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men hanged
in Minnesota in 1862-the largest mass execution in US history-Dovetails in Tall Grass is a powerful tale of two young women connected by the fate of one man.
