My Name Is Not Easy

My name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding the shore or wind pounding the tundra...

Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students-Eskimo, Indian, White-line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. Here, speaking Iñupiaq-or any native language-is forbidden....