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"To Live Heroically examines American Indian education during the last century, comparing the tribal, mission, and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools and curriculums and the assumptions that each system made about the role that Indians should assume in society. This significant book analyzes the relationship between the rise of institutional racism and the fall of public education in the United States using the history of American Indian education as a model."

"Riddle brings to life St. Nicholas School: 'a composite of Native boarding schools' found in Canada and the U.S. during the 1950s, and presents a clear-eyed survivor of the system, Ruby Loonfoot, a 13-year-old Ojibwe girl. Through Ruby's eyes Riddle illuminates a harsh world in which young girls are removed from their Native homes, undernourished, humiliated, and in several instances sexually molested, all part of the painful process of sacrificing their Indian identity for a mainstream education."