Little Chief

Institute History

Description

It's another typical day at a rural elementary school on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. A faded image of Little Chief, the school's mascot, remains on the walls as a proud symbol of a rich and complicated history. The world is stacked against the students, but Sharon shows up each day to guide her fifth-graders through it. One of them, Bear, is having a particularly hard time, enduring challenges both at home and in the classroom. He is desperate enough to escape it all, and Sharon is left chasing a little boy who is running to nowhere.

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