Title: Sweetgrass basket
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.
Subjects: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.), Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Sisters, Boarding schools, Schools, Mohawk Indians, Identity, History, Identity (Philosophical concept), School stories, Individuality, Residential schools, Native peoples, Native Americans, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Identity, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Boarding schools, fiction
Places: New York (State), Pennsylvania
Time periods: 1865-