In Whispers Pawnee What a thoughtful celebration

What a thoughtful celebration

but also with the local community and environment

Story and design are by Cecelia Rose LaPointe

combat in Vietnam

imagining a range of characters from all walks of native life

In Whispers Pawnee What a thoughtful celebrationThe year was 1957. Simon Pendagayosh and Carolina Shaugobay meet outside a variety store on a Saturday trip to town while attending St. Mary's Mission School, a Catholic boarding school for Native students. Simon, thirteen years of age, and Carolina, fourteen, fall in love. The boarding school era had a devastating effect on many Native people, designed to dispossess them from their communities, assimilate them into non Native society, and erase their