They called it prairie light : the story of Chilocco Indian School
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0803279574
ISBN 13
9780803279575
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
215
Subject
Chilocco Indian School -- History
Tags
Chilocco Indian School -- History, Chilocco Indian School, Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Education -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- United States, Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Biography, Residential Schools, Residential schools -- United States -- History, Residential schools -- United States
Abstract
"Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality that K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex.
Lomawaima allows the Chilocco students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together—the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones."--Amazon.
Lomawaima allows the Chilocco students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together—the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones."--Amazon.
Number of Copies
1
