Zintka befriended Neglicu, or Comes Out Alive, while in South Dakota. Like herself, Neglicu was an infant who survived the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Zintka even pronounced her new friend a twin of herself.

In mid-1906, Colby finally married Maud Miller. Maud had become wealthy from her Cuban husband's estate and depredation lawsuits. The new couple went to Switzerland for their honeymoon. The eve of their departure, Chief Little Cloud and a band of Indians from John Robinson's Circus arrived in Beatrice. They stormed Colby's house, hoping to reclaim Zintkala Nuni from Leonard's corrupt White power - only to discover the house empty. Again, Colby made a narrow escape.

Zintka returned to Portland, and then to Beatrice. Still afraid of the nighttime, Zintka often slept on neighbor's porches instead of with the dominating Colby and his frivolous new wife. Colby tried to enroll her at the Haskell Institute, another schooling situation that did not last long.

In 1908, Zintka was placed in the Milford Industrial Home, just west of Lincoln, NE. This was not a school or teaching home as one might think. In fact, the conditions at Milford were abhorrent, filthy and abusive. For Colby did not "enroll" Zintka at a school, and his aim was not to help her grow and learn.

Zintka was pregnant. And Milford was an institution of the most brutal kind. Zintka gave birth to a stillborn child in April. Colby kept Zintka there even after the pregnancy.

Meanwhile, Clara continued to earn very little money for her Votes of Women lectures. She did not know of Zintka's condition, even her whereabouts. In London, Clara's anger at her situation began to grow. She probably participated in the Suffragette riots of 1908 in London, and one can imagine her hurling bricks with the rest of the demanding mob.

Clara received a most frightening letter from Zintka. In it, Zintka said that she was somewhere in the West, but "I don't know where I'm at." Clara rushed to Milford, but without enough money, she couldn't retrieve Zintka from the horrors inside.

Zintka would remain in the Milford Home until 1909. She emerged a full-grown woman - powerless, abused and childless - but a woman all the same. At last, Zintka could begin a life of her own making.