The Thick Dark Fog

From 1879 until the 1960s, more than one-hundred thousand Native American children were forced to attend government-run boarding schools in an effort to “civilize” them.

Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota author and public speaker, attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota 60 years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950 was to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were not allowed to speak their language or express their culture or Native identity in any way. This is the story of how Littlemoon confronted his past so that he could renew himself and his community.

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