Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story Mojave and girls at the Cherokee

and girls at the Cherokee Female Seminary studying the same curriculum as women at Mount Holyoke

author of Turn Here Sweet Corn

who performed it as a play through SHI's Voices on the Land program

Van Camp includes stories from Elders whose wisdom influenced him

and critical ethnic studies

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story Mojave and girls at the CherokeeInspired by true events, this story of strength, family, and culture shares the awe inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy is adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changes. Betsy is taken away to a residential school. There she is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls words that give her the resilience,