indian students

Adam Fortunate Eagle, an enrolled member of the Ojibwe Nation, was a young student at the Pipestone Indian Boarding School and offers a rare, firsthand account that disproves the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. He attended the school between 1935 and 1945 and has fond memories of his time there. He grew up to be a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz.

Cree Black, a Seattle-based parapsychologist, is sent to New Mexico to investigate a gifted Navajo boy's bizarre illness, and explores Navajo culture and identity in modern America.