The Broken Doll (1910)

An American Indian child maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies There local white settlers a couple and their young daughter befriend the child and give her a doll her first and only toy Meanwhile another tribesman is wantonly killed by a settler Enraged the Indians plan revenge and organize a warparty to attack the town The Indians also take from the child the doll she was given and smash it The child mourns her broken doll and buries it with traditional tribal rites Alarmed that her new friends will be harmed when the town is attacked the child rushes ahead of the warparty to give warning of the imminent attack In the raid the child is struck by a bullet and makes her painful way to her dolls burial site Alone she dies