In the turbulent aftermath of the Indian Wars and amid the rapid rise of American industrial progress, two Lakota children are taken from everything they know—their family, their culture, and their homeland—and sent more than two thousand miles away to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania under the doctrine of “Kill the Indian to save the man.” Twelve-year-old Joseph Cross and his cousin Elizabeth White Cloud are thrust into a system designed to erase their identity. Far from the wid...