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About the Author: Renee Samson Flood, lecturer and author of seven books of history, has worked among the tribes of the northern plains for more than twenty years.
This remarkable biography examines the life of the woman who became a symbol of the warring cultures that entrapped her, and a heartbreaking microcosm of all those Native American children who Lost their heritage through adoption, social injustice, and war.
During her brief but unforgettable life she endured sexual abuse, violence, prostitution, and the rejection of her own tribe before dying at age twenty-nine on Valentine\'s Day.
Lost Bird ran away to join Buffalo Bill\'s Wild West Show and appeared in silent films and vaudeville.
Colby, divorced her husband, she raised the Lakota child as a white girl in a well-meaning but disastrous attempt to provide a stable home.
After the general\'s wife, the nationally known suffragist and newspaper editor Clara B.
Colby kidnapped and then adopted the baby girl named Lost Bird (1890-1920) as a "living curio," and exploited her in order to attract prominent tribes as clients of his law practice.
The dashing brigadier general (and future Assistant Attorney General of the United States) Leonard W.
Miraculously, after a four-day blizzard, an infant was found alive under the frozen body of her dead mother.
Seventh Cavalry massacred a band of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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