Sekaya

History
She is the sister of the Starfleet Captain Chakotay. She was also a resident of Dorvan 5 as Chakotay had been and stayed on the planet after he had left to join Starfleet. It is mentioned that both her and her brother would go to what they considered their secret place which was a swimming hole near their home when they were young. This was the place that they traveled to after her brother's return home. It is revealed in the course of the Sprint Walk novelsOld Wounds and Enemy of my Enemy that she began a romantic relationship with a man from another Native American tribe apart from hers named Blue Water Dreamer whom she and her brother had been friends with when they were children. It was during the course of her relationship with Blue Water Dreamer that the Cardassians arrived demanding that the people of Dorvan 5 submit to medical testing under the direction of the scientist Crell Moset. Unknown to the people of the planet the Cardassians where looking for those people who exhibited signs of Sky Spirit DNA. The Cardassian's goal was to discover what potenial the DNA held for telepathic and telekenetic powers among other things. The DNA they sought however had be dilutted over the course of many generations and finding a pure enough concentration had proved difficult. In the end, Blue Water Dreamer was found to have sufficent concentrations of the DNA within himself and was killed in the course of the scientific experiments performed on him. When he did not come to the family home to undergo the corting rituals to formally ask her father permission to be involved with her Sekaya was heartbroken. She eventually found out what had happened to him and this amongst other things led the people of Dorvan 5 to rebel. After these events, Sekaya trained as a Shaman and sought to make a bigger impact then just working in her tribe. To this end, she was assigned to the U.S.S. Voyager as a spitual adviser to the colonists who were returning to Loran 2. Disclosing the events of what had happened to her people and to her lover to her brother was difficult and had taken a few seperate attempts for her to work up the courage to do so; finally telling him in shuttle craft en route to the planet's surface. She eventually became entangled in Crell Moset's and the Changling's plan to restore the Changling's powers and exploit the powers of Sky Spirit DNA herself. She was restained along with her brother and experimented on. In the end, she and Chakotay joined forces in a combined Spirit Walk experience where they worked together in the Spirit world to manifest help from the spirit of Black Jaguar. During this experience, her physical body was fatally injured and she was given the chance to join her beloved Blue Water Dreamer in the afterlife which she refused to do but promised they would together again someday. Thanks to the timely actions of Dr. Kaz her body was healed and she awoke in Voyager's sickbay. In the end, she opted to remain with the Loran 2 colonists and help them settle on a new world.