While just a boy, Walter Littlemoon was taken from his home and family to a state-run school where he didn't speak the language, didn't understand the culture and didn't really know why he was there. But it soon became clear: These people were attempting to sever him from everything he knew and understood so that he could be more like them. The policy behind it was known as "kill the Indian and save the man." The year was 1950, and Littlemoon was one of thousands of American Indians who were being forcefully assimilated into mainstream America at the expense of everything their own culture held dear. Littlemoon tells this story... More >>>