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happily together when they saw each other. She became very close to the son of the chief, whose name was Insa. As they came into their young adulthood it was clear that the two of them would be husband and wife. Both Wanda and Insa were very happy about this. They each pictured themselves being with the other until the day they died. All of the tribe thought it a perfect match. But then Wanda started to have terrifying nightmares. In her dreams she would see all of her tribe being murdered by the white people. She saw them being stabbed and shot and even strangled to death, which was disturbing for her because up until now she had never known that such acts existed, her tribe being a peace-loving tribe. And she saw the women and children of her tribe being cruelly treated and tortured, just for the fun of it. In the dreams, the white people knew of the magic the Shaman had used to shapeshift the tribe into trees and every single one was taken down at the roots and burned in massive bonfires all across the land. As the trees burned they turned back into the bodies of her people and so were burned to death, with nothing of them remaining except a handful of ashes. As the days went on and the nightmares increased in intensity, Wanda realised that the people responsible for this massacre – even though she had never actually seen them in her life before, only heard of them from her people – were people just like her with white skin. They had strange customs and wore unusual clothes that covered them from neck to toe.
    She went to the Shaman and spoke of her dreams and her concern that the dreams might be premonitions. Often, over the years, she had talked to the Shaman about the Shaman’s ability to see into the future. Wanda knew that this was one of the reasons the Shaman held so much power. She always knew what was coming up and the people of the tribe respected her for this talent, and relied on her to guide them with all of the decisions they had to make at all times. But this day, when Wanda needed her advice more than ever, the Shaman simply said that they were annoying dreams that meant nothing and to ignore them. Pre-wedding jitters was the explanation. Wanda wasn’t convinced but the more she pressed the Shaman, the more irritable the Shaman became and then she stopped talking altogether and asked Wanda to leave.
    Wanda walked away from the Shaman’s hut even more confused than when she had arrived there. Not only because the Shaman had reacted in an uncaring way about her dreams, but also because Wanda noticed something else about the Shaman too. There was a certain look in her eye and tone to her voice that Wanda had never seen before. But she couldn’t recognise what it was. The Shaman acted as if she wasn’t worried about the dreams and what they meant, but she was hiding something; intuitively Wanda knew this for sure. She decided to take matters into her own hands.

    It wasn’t long before the Shaman would come to deeply regret her decision to ignore the girl.

Chapter 9
Wanda’s Terror
    W anda thought that if she could go to the white man’s town and dress in the way of the white girls and learn to speak their language, then she would be able to go and talk to the person in charge of the white people, their chief. She would tell him that her people were good people and that there should be peace between them. She would say that her people only wanted to have a little bit of the land and to have a simple life. This is what Wanda thought she would say to the chief. She thought he would listen to her because she had the same coloured skin as him. She thought she could change the course of history.
    When she arrived in the town, Wanda realised there was a flaw in her plan. She had no money to buy the clothes. Her only option would be to steal some clothes from the local general store. She crept into the store without anyone seeing and then made her way to the back of the