Spupaleena is a Sinyekst Indian, the only one brave enough to challenge tradition. Girls in her village are of the tender age to marry, but that is the last thing on her mind. Her dream is to race and raise horses in anticipation of selling them to Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Colvile in Washington Territory. But her father has other plans and arranges for his daughter to care for a three-month-old baby whose mother is gravely ill in hopes she will...