In Whispers Pawnee combat in Vietnam

combat in Vietnam

and internalized racial oppression

Story and design are by Cecelia Rose LaPointe

but also with the local community and environment

imagining a range of characters from all walks of native life

In Whispers Pawnee combat in VietnamThe 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