A young Lakota girl is taken from her family to a white-run boarding school in 1880 Dakota Territory, where she resists cultural erasure.
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A young Lakota girl is taken from her family to a white-run boarding school in 1880 Dakota Territory, where she resists cultural erasure.
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Ten-year-old Four Winds is a young Lakota girl caught up in the changes brought about by her people's forced move to the reservation. Set in the Dakota Territory, it is the year 1880. Four Winds has been taken away from her family and brought to a boarding school run by whites. It is here she is taught English and learns how to assimilate into white culture. But soon she discovers that the teachers at this school are not interested in assimilation but rather in erasing her culture. On the reserv...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Physical punishment at school for speaking Lakota
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Religious content
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Missionary school focuses on civilizing and converting Native children
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No magic or witchcraft present
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Political content
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Central themes of forced assimilation and cultural erasure
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child endures physical punishment, shaming, and systemic cultural abuse at boarding school
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