Wayah doesn't understand why he is being sent from his people, the Cherokee, to attend the Brafferton School of Indians in Virginia. He's been told that contact with the whites harms the Cherokee. How he endures the year of learning and returns to his people shows how Wayah survives the white man's touch.
Wayah doesn't understand why he is being sent from his people, the Cherokee, to attend the Brafferton School of Indians in Virginia. He's been told that contact with the whites harms the Cherokee. How he endures the year of learning and returns to his people shows how Wayah survives the white man's touch.