"Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) was born on the Southern Ute Reservation in 1935, grew up at Picuris Pueblo, and attended the Santa Fe Indian boarding school. In his first book for children, Joseph shares his life and teachings with co-author David Kopacz. Joseph says that the United States sent Indian kids to boarding schools to make American kids out of them, now he shares his teachings with American kids to make Indian kids out of them. This book reminds kids (and adults, too) what it means to be walking the pathway of divine presence and that we are all born holy beings, but we forget that as we grow up"--
