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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School

By K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Book information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0803279574, 9780803279575
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
905 kB (926985 bytes)
Series
North American Indian Prose Award
Pages
215\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
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Description

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.

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