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Skenandore, Amanda,
author.
Between earth and sky
[PB] /
Amanda Skenandore.
New York, NY :
Kensington Books,
[2018]
324 pages ;
21 cm.
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Includes discussion questions.
Includes bibliographical references.
"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything they'd known--language, customs, even their names--and left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake ... she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma's sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone--especially Stewart"--Amazon.com.
Philadelphia, 1906. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma Mitchell's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry-- then called Asku-- was the most promising student at Stover School in Wisconsin, the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations, the school robbed them of language, customs, even their names. Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Alma's lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku, forcing Alma to revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone-- especially Stewart.
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Spouses
Fiction.
Ojibwa Indians
Fiction.
Indians, Treatment of
Fiction.
Whites
Relations with Indians
Fiction.
Family secrets
Fiction.
Indian children
Education
Fiction.
Indians of North America
Ethnic identity
Fiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools
Wisconsin
Fiction.
Family secrets.
Indian children
Education.
Indians of North America
Ethnic identity.
Indians, Treatment of.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Ojibwa Indians.
Spouses.
Whites
Relations with Indians.
Philadelphia (Pa)
Fiction.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
Wisconsin.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.