Rayen James: 2 books

  For all the years Shanoah was forced to attend a harsh boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, she clung to the idea of going home to her Cherokee family and her native roots. She wants nothing to do with white people and struggles to remember the language she is not allowed...

At the tender age of 8, Shanoah was forcibly removed from her Cherokee Tribe and placed into a Bureau of Indian Affairs run boarding home. Nine years later she escapes from the institution in the dead of winter determined to rejoin her Tribe. Nearly dead of hypothermia and starvation, she finds refuge...