cribes the immense hypocrisy of the Catholic nuns and priests who ran the schools for reservation children. Their mission to 'save' the Indians was outlined in a poster Crow Dog found among her grandfather's possessions. It consisted of ten rules for Indian behavior that began with the injunction to let Jesus save them and continued with items such as "come out of your blanket, cut your hair, and dress like a white man" and "speak the language of your white brother" (Crow Dog & Erdoes 31). The beatings and cruelty the Catholic schools imposed on the Indians, along with incidents of sexual abuse that had no official approval and received little punishment, conveyed the depth of hatred that most teachers had toward the students. As a small child Crow Dog encountered one of her teachers in a grocery store who complained of the small child's putting back an orange she could not afford with the remark, "Why can't those dirty Indians keep their hands off this food?" (21). In this story, and others like it, Crow Dog conveys the sense that Indian children had of being so utterly outside the realm of humanity that white peo
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