Lionel was very young when his parents died, so he can barely remember the time before he and his sister, Beatrice, came to the boarding school on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. His life is easy enough, so long as he obeys the priests and officers. But Beatrice seems to provoke their anger at every turn, refusing to cut her hair and insisting on honouring the old Blackfeet traditions that the priests have forbidden.
When the appearance of a frozen corpse triggers an irreversible chain of events, Lionel and Beatrice flee for their lives on a stolen horse. Somewhere in the mountains, beyond the territory claimed by the white men, lies their grandfather's homestead - and the promise of freedom. If only they can survive long enough to find him..

Entertaining children's tale that doesn't glamourise the era or cover up the way the indigenous people were treated.

Left in the bus shelter

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