Ten-year-old Four Winds is a young Lakota girl caught up in the changes brought about by her people\'s forced move to the reservation.
Now she must fight to hold on to who she is..
On the reservation, Four Winds had to fight against starvation.
But soon she discovers that the teachers at this school are not interested in assimilation but rather in erasing her culture.
It is here she is taught English and learns how to assimilate into white culture.
Four Winds has been taken away from her family and brought to a boarding school run by whites.
Set in the Dakota Territory, it is the year 1880.
Ten-year-old Four Winds is a young Lakota girl caught up in the changes brought about by her people\'s forced move to the reservation