Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully

and traveling to faraway places

sensitive Azure's first among them) to fill in the sorrows and joys

They said she couldn't win because of how she looked

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 rice Dakota Sioux artist Mary SullyBoarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often