Sweetgrass basket
By: by Marlene Carvell.
Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction.; United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; Identity -- Fiction.; Mohawk Indians -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Fiction.; Boarding schools -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.