Princess Genevieve lives in a Native American village on the great prairie with her father, Chief Kota, her sister, Princess McKenna, and her mother, Chief Brice. Brice and Kota share the leadership of their tribe. Native Americans had no rules against  female chiefs, so Kota and Brice agreed to share the duties and responsibilities of the tribe to lessen the burden on both of them.

  Genevieve was not like all the other children in the village. She was the daughter of the great Chief Kota, who was from the tribe of the Fire Breathing Buffalo. Kota had given Gevie (that is what he called her) a buffalo named Kangie on her third birthday. Gevie could not pronounce Kangie, so she called him Ganja. The whole family laughed, but the name stuck. So Kangie was now called Ganja from then on.

Gevie and Kota would spend their days on the prairie watching the clouds and chewing on twigs of grass. Chief Kota had a fine painted horse named Oatie that he rode, but Gevie rode Ganja, her buffalo. He was very fast and he could jump high.

  Gevie would spend days and days just enjoying the prairie with Ganja and Chief Kota. One day, while they were out on the prairie, Princess McKenna rode out to find them and let them know of a terrible thing that had happened. Some children were out playing and went into a cave. The entrance caved in, and they were trapped inside. Gevie and Ganja rode like the wind to get to the cave.

 They rode so hard and fast that Ganja breathed fire from his nostrils for the first time.

 Princess McKenna and Chief Kota had a hard time keeping up with them.