2024 Silver Medal Global Book Award for Cultural Heritage Fiction 2024 Pencraft Award for Best Book for Fiction - Cultural Finalist, 2023 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction Finalist, 2023 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction 2023 BREW Fiction Book Excellence Awards for Political Fiction of the Year 2023 NYC Big Book Award Winner for Cultural Heritage 2023 Outstanding Creator Awards Top 25 Ranked Non-Fiction Books Second Place, 2023 Incipere Book Award for Historical Clean category 2023 HFC "Highly Recommended" 5-Star Award Found alive after the massacre at Wounded Knee, twelve-year-old John Iron Horse is determined not to end up like so many others of his people. Then he learns the motto of the school he's required to attend: "Kill the Indian, save the man." Carter Heath teaches in the government-run educational system and knows there's more to his position than what's happening in his classroom. He'll soon learn that, in bureaucracy, politics, money, and ulterior motives are always intertwined. Can the bond between an extraordinary student and a dedicated teacher survive in a world that pits red man against white?