The Education of Little Tree (film)

The Education of Little Tree is a 1997 American film written and directed by Richard Friedenberg based on the controversial 1976 fictional memoir of the same title by Forrest Carter about an orphaned boy raised by his paternal Scottishdescent grandfather and Cherokee grandmother in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Little Tree is removed from his home by the government and placed in the Notched Gap Indian School, a fictional Native American boarding school whose mission is to reform Native children and make them assimilate into the dominate white culture, but Little Trees grandfather, through the instigation of Willow John, soon rescues him and takes him back home.

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