When the Comache raid, the used to take children as captives and either trade them or adapt them to the tribe. This is what happened to Cynthia Ann Parker, taken in East Texas at Fort Parker at the age of nine. She doesn't remember how to speak English and has been taught to hate the white settlers. White Squaw, as they called her, is brought along to gather loot to trade and do other chores that are ordered of her.