As a young man Canowicakte boarded a train in Indian Country and began a journey that some of his friends said would end at the edge of the world and certain death. Instead, they crossed the continent and found themselves at Carlisle Indian School. In some ways they had reached the end of the world as they had known it. The horrors of Indian boarding school life are well-documented and are still the subject of studies and narratives about intergenerational trauma. However, unlike thousands of other Indians, Canowicakte, now named Chauncey Yellow Robe, flourished there and even developed a...