Here is my character:
NashabiAge: 18
Background: Growing up as the daughter of a famous Indian chief has its perks, but it also isn't the easiest thing in the world. Nashabi is the daughter of K'uu-ch'ish, who is known among the white people as Cochise. Her mother was not a Native American though, she was Chinese, which has given Nashabi her exotic and beautiful appearance.
Almost two years before Nashabi was born, her father was leading a raid on a mining operation. Much to his surprise, he found many Chinese workers there, men and women. Cochise and his warriors took the Chinese women they liked as second wives and left the men alive, many of whom had thought their lives were at an end. This led to the birth of three girls, which were added to the family of Cochise, as he already had two sons with his first wife, Taza and Naiche.
Nashabi was the middle of the three girls, but she was the most headstrong and charismatic of the trio. Before her father died when she was nine years old, she often returned with bruises and scrapes from fighting with the boys. Her sisters were similar, but to a lesser extend. Nashabi often found herself defending the kids of the other Chinese wives, and she made many friends that way.
In 1872, her father finally stopped the war with the white men, which had been going on for over ten years. He negotiated a good treaty, which gave the Chiricahua their homeland as a reservation. Unfortunately, Cochise died only two years later of an illness, and the white men went back on their word. The Chiricahua were driven off their homeland. Taza, Nashabi's half-brother, went to Washington to speak to the white father, but he died there of yet another illness. Things were certainly not going well for the Chiricahua.
During the time in the reservation, Nashabi and her friends and sisters were forced to go to a school for Natives, where she learned to speak English. When she was not at school, she practiced fighting though, becoming a good shot with her Winchester 1873 that her half-brother got her. She heard about the female warrior societies of the Cheyenne, and she used her charisma to convince many daughters of the Chinese wives to join her in practicing. That was also the time she grew into her body, and her features got her some unwanted attention, namely from the Indian agent of the reservation. Her half-brother Naiche made sure that she and the other girls would be kept out of sight from then on.
When Naiche joined Geronimo, Nashabi left the reservation as well. Many of her female friends and her sisters went with her. They did not want to fight the white men, but they wanted to see their homeland and live free as their ancestors did. They traveled through New Mexico, keeping away from any larger settlements. They hunted, gathered (and stole) what they needed, and when a trader told them about the mining town that was run by women only, Nashabi got interested. The group was running low on ammunition, and women like that might look more favorably on Nashabi and her group. So she decided to pay them a visit, alone, so that they would not get nervous.
Other: Nashabi has the Winchester Carbine mentioned above, a Colt Frontier and a Bowie Knife as her weapons. She wears a long wide skirt and a top made of leather straps and a part of a wolf's skin, which seems to defy gravity.
