Offers an account of the author's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War.
An account first published in 1900 of La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men."
