Luke knows his Inupiaq name is full of sounds white people can t say. He knows he ll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village.
At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students Eskimo, Indian, White who line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there s some kind of war going on. And instead of comforting words like tutu and maktak, there s English. Speaking Inupiaq or any native language is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of...
Luke knows his Inupiaq name is full of sounds white people can t say. He knows he ll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to b...
