Home to Medicine Mountain

Home to Medicine MountainTwo young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer. Two young brothers are separated from their family and sent to live in a government run Indian residential school in the 1930s an experience shared by generations of Native American children throughout North America. At these schools, children were forbidden to speak their Indian

Two young brothers are separated from their family and sent to live in a government-run Indian residential school in the 1930s-an experience shared by generations of Native American children throughout North America. At these schools, children were forbidden to speak their Indian languages and made to unlearn their Indian ways. Sadly, they were often not able to go home to their families for summer vacation.

Native American artist Judith Lowry based this story on the experiences of her father and her Uncle Stanley. Judith and author Chiori Santiago tenderly relate how Stanley and Benny Len found their way home by train one summer. Inspired by their dreams of home and the memories of their grandmother's stories, the boys embark on an adventurous journey from the harsh residential school to their triumphant welcome home at Susanville, California, in the shadow of Yo-Tim Yamne (Medicine Mountain).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Children's Book Press (CA)
Published: 04/01/2013
ISBN: 9780892391769
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.50h x 9.62w x 0.12d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 51310 / Home to Medicine Mountain
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5