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El-Soo
A Native woman of startling beauty and wit who moves as an equal among white society while her father's debts quietly enslave her to an old chief.
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Also known as thy, thee
First appearance: The Wit of Porportuk
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El-Soo presides over her father Klakee-Nah's great house with an aristocrat's disdain for money and a diplomat's instinct for managing proud men. She is the one Indian woman at Tana-naw Station whom white men propose to…
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