Dawn's mother was a young daughter of Finnish immigrants that fell in love with an injured Brave she found on her family's acquiered land. Her family nursing him back to health the young fell in love and she moved with him to the tribe in 1844. Her family and the Tribe having made a pact of peace. The Kiowa elders due to the gratefulness of having their chiefs son's life spared and the immigrant family unaware of the Indian scare and relying on the Tribe for survival in the new surroundings. Soon afterwards she had a daughter she named Anna Dawn in honor of her grandmother Anna and her Finnish kin, Saraste. As her daughter's father was killed by whites she turned her back on her own kind and lived her life in the Kiowa tribe that had adopted her. When her Grandparents died Dawn lost contact with the white world.

Dawn grew up to be as independent as her mother. Much to the tribes', and especially her father's exasperation. Her father loved her with all his heart since the Man of Dreams told him she would be his only child. She was only ten when her biological father was killed and she was adopted as his brothers child, her mother becoming the elder brothers wife. As the Indian customs prescribes. Due to the braveness of her father she and her mother was given an honorary status in the tribe. She learned the white ways and the language from her mother that wisely enough prepared her for life in either of the worlds. She inherited knowledge from the legends from both the northern countries and the Indian mytology. Making her open-minded and sensitive to both her surroundings and the people around her. Still securely set in her ways and tolerant of other's decicions. She was as her mother put it "walking to the rhytm of a different drum." Much as her mother had before her.

She learned to hunt and ride with the boys, not having to follow the other girls rules since she was "different". She competed with the young of the tribe fiercely enough to have them forget her gender and treat her as an equal in many senses. Secure of her place in the world she looked into the future with hope. She choice laughter before tears and never hesitated before any kind of obstacles that were risen in her way. She got through due to her determination and will to fight. Laughing as she failed only to get on it again, until she got it right.

She first laid her eyes on a very young Running Buck. She fell in love with the youngster with the burning eyes that lived with the tribe for a short time at a very young age. Dawn never had the courage to speak to him. As he revisited the Kiowa tribe with his brother Red Bear she worked up the courage to approach him. As their eyes met for the first time Dawn knew that it would be him or nobody else to walk with her through life. And he did. Even though Buck's appearance changed her whole way of life she never lost that pearly laughter and the grit that had made Buck watch the young girl with admiration and respect. A respect that grew into a love that made him chose a way he probably wouldn't if Dawn hadn't come around. He settled down and raised a family with the green-eyed girl who turned out to become his guiding star in life.