Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School

I'm currently volunteering at a Native American educational nonprofit that either worked with Adam Fortunate Eagle in the past or still does, and although I've never met him, the owners deeply admire him. I knew next to nothing about him before picking up this book, other than what I found Googling......more

Very interesting piece of history. I loved getting a new perspective on native American culture and world War II.......more

Adam Fortunate Eagle's memoir of his time in Pipestone Indian Boarding School counters -- to some degree -- the typical stories of deprivation, misery, and cultural disenfranchisement in Indian boarding schools. It's a little surprising that he generalizes his own (rather rosy) memories of Pipestone......more

i don’t know. it took me a long time to figure out my rating for this one bc there just isn’t much to it. i appreciate the perspective adam fortunate eagle brought, but i just don’t really care for personal memoirs, especially ones like this that didn’t involve any analysis looking back. it was akin......more

PIPESTONE is different in a number of ways from most accounts describing Native American experiences in boarding schools. For one thing author Adam Fortunate Eagle describes his experience as mostly beneficial. His brothers and sisters and Adam were sent there after the death of their father. His mo......more