amdame1 's review for:

Runs with Courage by Joan M. Wolf
4.0

Four Winds is a member of the Lakota tribe. One day, when she is 10-years-old, a wagon with white people on it comes into her tribe's camp and change their life forever. Four Winds is taken to a boarding school where she has no access to her family, all her belongings from home are burned, and she is forbidden to speak anything but English.

I understand that Debbie Reece has some misgivings about this book, but to me it appears that the author consulted knowledgeable resources and did in-depth research to make this story as historically accurate as possible. It is a very dark, shameful time in our history and I believe that students need to be reading this book and others like it, so we don't perpetuate or repeat this grave errors.