My heart is on the ground

By Ann Rinaldi, Ann Warren Turner

Subjects: Boarding schools in fiction, Juvenile literature, Indians of North America in fiction, Navajo Indians, Dakota Indians in fiction, Relocation, Indians of north america, juvenile literature, Indians of north america, social conditions, Boarding schools, Indians of North America, Fiction, Schools in fiction, Dakota Indians, Navajo girls, Indians of north america, navajo indians, Social conditions, Juvenile fiction, History, Schools

Description: In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.