by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2012 | boarding schools, Chief Joseph, Jim Pepper, Josephy Library, Maria Tallchief, Nativetelecom, Nez Perce, Sandra Osawa, Smoke Signals, termination policy, Thick Dark Fog, Walter Littlemoon
I watched a film on PBS last night, “The Thick Dark Fog.” It is the story of a Lakota man named Walter Littlemoon and his struggle to reclaim his humanity, stolen from him at a boarding school as a five year old on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The man’s a poet—a simple...
