As an English and Theater educator from South Dakota, I appreciated the focus on Indigenous Studies. Recently, I re-read Adam Fortunate Eagle’s novel Pipestone: My Life at an Indian Boarding School. Here are a few more great quotes:
“I may be only thirteen years old, but I love reading about history. I know the government is playing a game of mumblety-peg with Indians. After all our history, I just know the Indians are going to end up chewing dirt.”
Adam fortunate Eagle, Pipestone: My Life at An Indian Boarding School
“Jack Thompson is now a frustrated alcoholic warrior who takes out his anger on my mother. Once, in a drunken rage, he beat up my mother when she was eight months pregnant. He was so drunk and mad he kicked her in the stomach and made her abort a stillborn baby boy.”
Adam fortunate Eagle, Pipestone: My Life at An Indian Boarding School
Adam fortunate Eagle, Pipestone: My Life at An Indian Boarding School
“Indians were so desperate on reservations and in urban areas that they would be better off breaking into an abandoned maximum security prison, which was in total disrepair,…