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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

By Adam Fortunate Eagle, Laurence M. Hauptman (Afterword)
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By Adam Fortunate Eagle, Laurence M. Hauptman (Afterword)
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Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.

Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John ...

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