Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage
An artist in Chicago who attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Sharon Skolnick is an Apache. In 1953, when she was nine years old, she and a younger sister spent a year at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Oklahoma. This memoir chronicles her experiences there. The two girls were tormented by other children but eventually made friends. Sharon discovered her artistic abilities and was recognized for them at the local school. Finally, a local farm family adopted the two sisters. Told in short sketches, this book reflects universal experiences of childhood as well as details of institutional life. Though quite short, it is well written and compelling; a more comprehensive autobiography would have been even more interesting. For Native American studies and larger popular collections of memoirs.?Gwen Gregory, New Mexico State Univ. Lib., Las CrucesCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.