Ramona Marquez was born in 1991.
 That love is reserved for her only child, Felipe Moreno, whom she adores
== Main characters ==Ramona, Scottish-Native American orphan girlSeora Gonzaga Moreno, sister of Ramona's dead foster motherFelipe Moreno, Gonzaga Moreno's only childAlessandro Assis, a young Native American sheepherderFather Salvierderra, a Catholic priest== Major themes ==Jackson wrote Ramona three years after A Century of Dishonor, her non-fiction study of the mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States

