Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian Boarding School experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making.
This volume draws on the full breadth of this experience in showing how American Indian Boarding schools provided both positive and negative influences for Native American child.
More often, though, the children fought the monster and grew stronger.
Sometimes the monster swallowed them up.
Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian Boarding School experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making