The story is about a young Comanche girl named Naru who dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother. She is skilled in healing and tracking, but the adults in her tribe look down on her because of her age and job. When a hunter is attacked by what appears to be a puma, Naru convinces the group to help her track the animal. However, they soon discover that the attacker is not a puma, but a more dangerous creature - the Predator.
As the Predator continues to hunt and kill, Naru's brother is injured, and she is forced to take care of him. Meanwhile, a group of fur traders arrives, and they are revealed to be the ones responsible for a bison cemetery that Naru had discovered earlier.
The traders capture Naru and her brother, intending to use them as bait for the Predator. However, Naru manages to escape and uses her knowledge of the medicine to hide from the Predator. She also uses a bear trap to free herself and her brother, and they escape.
Naru then sets out to rescue her little dog, Sari, and encounters the Predator again. She uses her intelligence and resourcefulness to outsmart the Predator, and eventually kills it by luring it into a mud pit and shooting it with its own harpoon gun.
With the Predator defeated, Naru returns to her tribe and brings them proof of her strength and bravery. She gives the tribe's chief a weapon that the translator had given her, which bears the name "Rafael Ado Link" and the year "1715". This is a nod to the 1990 film Predator 2, in which a police officer receives a similar weapon from a Predator.
The story ends with Naru walking away, and the narrator reflecting on the events of the story.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The story is about a young Comanche girl named Naru who lives in a village.
2. Naru is a skilled healer and tracker who dreams of proving herself as a hunter.
3. A hunter in the village is attacked by what appears to be a puma.
4. Naru convinces the group of hunters to help her track the animal and the injured young man.
5. The group finds the hunter badly injured and Naru saves his life by giving him a medicine that reduces his body temperature.
6. Naru's brother, Taabe, decides to stay and hunt the puma, but Naru sees strange footprints and realizes that something or someone scared the puma away.
7. A spaceship passes through the area and leaves behind the predator.
8. Naru starts practicing with an ax and assembles a lasso to prepare for the predator.
9. Naru's brother and another hunter agree to surround the feline while it swims, but the predator appears and kills them.
10. Naru is tied to a tree by fur traffickers who are waiting for the predator to capture it.
11. The predator appears and kills the traffickers, but spares Naru's life.
12. Naru's brother, Taabe, is killed by the predator.
13. Naru uses a medicine to reduce her body temperature and hide from the predator.
14. Naru uses a bear trap to capture the predator and then kills it by cutting off its head.
15. Naru returns to her tribe and brings proof that she is a skilled hunter.
16. The story ends with Naru walking away in the snow, and a mention of a possible sequel.