Edwina Crowe Jones is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She left Cherokee at age eleven to attend two American Indian boarding schools in Oklahoma.
Her first book, Return to Riverside, profiles her own Riverside Indian Boarding School class of 1970 whose members represent fourteen states and thirty-two American Indian tribes across the nation. The author, a retired public school teacher, is also a National Board Certified Counselor with a certificate in Biblical Counseling. She enjoys dividing her time between her two North Carolina residences in Lexington and Cherokee. Her second book, Aliens in God’s Country, will be available for purchase late spring 2010. A book of fiction, it tells the journey of a modern day American Indian woman’s life with the Great White family---her trials and tribulations, her victories.

Return to Riverside is a legacy for American Indian history. The author profiles her 1970 class of Riverside Indian boarding school in Anadacko, Oklahoma. The members represent fourteen states and thirty two American Indian tribes across the nation. In addition to discussing their reasons for attending Riverside, the oldest operation American Indian boarding school in the US Indian service, the alumni present their memories and experiences, good or bad, of cottage life, academic life, and now Riverside has impacted their adult lives.