Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner

Description

Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home| kill his sheep and capture his family.
During the Long Walk of 1864| Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye.
Refusing to accept captivity| he is sent to Fort Davis| Texas| a Civil War prisoner outpost.
There he battles bullying fellow prisoners| rattlesnakes and abusive soldiers until he meets Jim Davis.
Jim teaches Danny how to hold his anger and starts him on the road to literacy.
In a stunning climax| Jim–who builds coffins for the dead–aids Danny in a daring and dangerous escape.
Set in troubled times| “Danny Blackgoat” is the story of one boy’s hunger to be free “and” be Navajo.