The Indian school

It is the autumn of 1839 and Lucy, an orphan, has come to live with her aunt and uncle, who run a mission school for Indians. Aunt Emma is stern and has rules for everything; she gives the students AMerican names and dresses them in drab mission clothes. Uncle Edward tells them that the old ways are gone, and now they must fit into the white man's world. Lucy cannot understand why the Indians are the ones who must do the changing.