Dream Helper: A Novel of Early CaliforniaWhen Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara. She is baptized there along with several other new neophytes and begins a restricted life far beyond what she expected. Even though she meets a man she is very attracted to, she yearns for the freer life living on her own along the ocean. In the process of trying to escape the mission, she kills one of the