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are alone, as you called Raven by her name? Only please don’t tell your aunt.”
    I promised that I would. “Wabomeme, would you like to go back to your tribe?”
    Mary shook her head sadly. “It would be like looking for snow on a summer’s day.My tribe have all melted away. Besides, all my ways now are the ways of white people. I have forgotten how to live in the tribe.”
    Later that night when I was alone in my room I took up the birch-bark box that Raven had made. I was still hurt at how she had left without a look or word for me. I opened the little box to smell the sweet grass that was woven around the inside.
    I thought of all Raven had taught me. She had shown me where to gather nuts in the forest and how to make maple syrup. I had seen her stand up to my aunt. Living in the lightning tree, she had shown me how you can survive on your own. Raven had been to the school for Indians, but I had been to Indian school.

About the Author
    G LORIA W HELAN is a poet and award-winning short story writer who has also written many books for children, including ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, THE SECRET KEEPER, and HANNAH. She lives with her husband, Joseph, in the woods of northern Michigan.
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    THE INDIAN SCHOOL . Copyright © 1996 by Gloria Whelan. Illustrations copyright © 1996 by Gabriela Dellosso. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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