Eitzen, Stanley D. and Maxine Baca Zinn (1997).

My name is Alejandra Baca, but everyone calls me Ale except the doctors, who call me Karlita.

Crossing the Great Plains in Texas with his father (Chris Cooper), young Ned (Sean Baca) is kidnapped by a brutal gang of comancheros and, fortuitously, placed in the care of a Mexican Indian mystic named Crecencio (Luis Avalos).