Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage

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The dreams of a courageous Apache girl remove darkness from the hidden world of an Indian orphanage on this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were got rid of from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled from side to side between foster homes and orphanages, they in the end ended up on the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and in the long run triumphal account of the year the sisters spent there.
 
Murrow used to be a place of wonder and terror, friendship and loneliness, where resilient children forged shifting alliances and conspired together yet yearned in solitude for a home and circle of relatives to call their own. Skolnick paints an absorbing portrait of the world of an Indian orphanage, a world both bright and dark, vividly rendered through a child’s eyes but tempered by the viewpoint of the woman who survived the Indian child welfare system and became an Apache artist.

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