Historical Fiction
It has been quite awhile since I have read a book that has made my heart ache. This story has done just that.
What a terrible time in America's history.! What an injustice that was done to the Native Americans!!!
The story of Alma and Asku is told in two time periods, In the 1880's when the white man forced the Native American Indian children into schools to assimilate them into the white man's world and making them leave behind their native languages, traditions, and families. Many called these schools "savage taming" schools.
Then in the early 1900's when Alma hears of Asku being accused of murder and she and her lawyer husband go back to her home town to try to find evidence of his innocence. Alma must also face many ghosts of her past and face her hidden knowledge of how the Indians were mistreated and lied to over and over.
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