This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating chapters are closely based on two real-life students, Ivy Miller, a semi-orphaned white girl seeking a free education, and Sylvester Long, a black youth escaping the Jim Crow South. Both passed illegally as Indians while attending the U.S. government's most prestigious Indian boarding school."
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This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating chapters are closely based on two real-life students, Ivy Miller, a semi-orphaned white girl seeking a free education, and Sylvester Long, a black youth escaping the Jim Crow South. Both passed illegally as Indians while attending the U.S. government's most prestigious Indian boarding school."
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "Mike-It was such a pleasure reading for you + a pleasure to respond to your excellent questions-I hope someday these would be a film! Chris Gavaler".; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 228 pages; Signed by Author.
