Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught
Ramsey County Historical Society, St. Paul, MN, 1998; ISBN 0-934294-60-7

In 1834, five-year old Jane was placed into a covered wagon without her parents’ knowledge to travel with a family she did not know. They took her through great woods and savannahs in a covered wagon, boating across Lake Michigan and up rivers until they reached Minnesota. While her new family was building a log cabin, Jane discovered that the other people already there lived in houses made of tree bark or buffalo skins and spoke a language called Dakota. And she came to love these people. From then on, Jane lived in two worlds, that of the white missionary family, and of the native people who treated her like a daughter. She spoke two languages, lived by two sets of rules, and answered to two names: Jane and "Little Bird That Was Caught." This true story tells of Jane’s amazing experiences as a child of two cultures.

Visit the Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life.

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