native american children

Uses question and answer format to describe life for Indian children long ago, as they learned to preserve their culture and prepared for adulthood.

Weaves the testimony of many Native Americans into a single narrative of childhood and growing up.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Text and photos describe the off-reservation boarding schools run by white Americans that many Native American children were forced to attend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.