Sing Down the Moon

3/5
This book starts with a young Navaho girl, Bright Morning, tending her sheep. As she is tending them, she is captured by the Spanish slaves and taken to a village several days away. She and two other slaves escape. Once she gets back to Canyon de Chelly, her family is very happy to see her. Early one winter morning the "long knives" (American soldiers Fort Defiance) came and told them they needed to leave. When they didn't leave, the solders ruined the Navaho's crops and capture them. The Navahos are taken to their new home (Fort Sumner). Along the way, they meet up with more Indians who are going to the same place. Once they get to Fort Sumner, they are told to plant crops, and the long knives give them flour for food. The next two harvests failed and they started to run out of food, so Bright Morning and her husband run back to Canyon de Chelly. They escape from long knives for now.

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