A fascinating study of a young Native American of Apache extraction who found himself caught up in white America's hubristic approach to “civilizing” Native Americans by forcibly separating them from their native culture, cutting their hair, dressing them in white men's clothes, and sending them off to boarding schools. As much as the shameful history of American–Native American relations, you will learn what approximates Native American (or at least Apache) thinking by internalizing the protagonist's reactions to Western/American/Christian ideas and methods. ( )