Together, they steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi in search for a place to call home. Out of pity, they also take with them a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy.
Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school.Īfter committing a terrible crime, Odie and Albert are forced to flee for their lives along with their best friend, Mose, a mute young man of Sioux heritage. It is also home to Odie O’Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent’s wrath. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated.
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