Ok, I have a book I want identified! It's a children's book, somewhere between child and young adult. It was about a Navajo boy who lived in a hogan and was brought to a boarding school and he kept running away. Unfortunately, that's about all I can truly remember, except I really loved that book. Book detectives? I'm guessing it was written in the 60s (based on what I remember of the way the book looked), but I could be off by a decade either way