A lightning bug and a luna moth rested on the blossom of the swaying butterfly bush. Their journey to Mr. Rudyard Kipling's home in Vermont had been a long one, but only he could tell them how to explain their wondrous gifts. Just why did the proud lightning bug light the night with his glowing lantern? Why did the splendid luna moth dance in the bewitching light of the full moon? A teller of delightful tales, Mr. Kipling would not fail them, but it would be his remarkable child who would bring light to all of them.

Devised in the late nineteenth century, the United States government's "solution" to "the Indian Problem" was simple and heartless. Take the children from their homes, strip them of their cultural identity and pride, and make them "Americans." Teaching them baseball- "America's Game"- would complete the indoctrination. Or so they thought. Freedom between the Lines recreates the story of Native American youth sent to a federally run boarding school, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. What awaits the children is a carefully plotted re-education program intended to "civilize" them by...