Kidnapped at 18 Months — She Found Out 63 Years Later

A third-person narrative documentary on Millie Durgan, known all her life as Sain-toh-oodie Goombi. Taken from a Texas homestead as an 18-month-old baby in the Elm Creek Raid of 1864, she was raised Kiowa and only recognized as her lost birth self in 1930, 66 years later. The thesis: she was never lost to herself, only to a family who could not remember her. The poignancy is the collision between her white family's decades of grief and her own lifelong contentment. Fourth entry in the frontier-captivity series (Parker, Lehmann, Oatman, Durgan).