In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: sisters, fiction, identity, mohawk indians, indians of north america, new york (state), boarding schools, pennsylvania, history, 1865-, fiction