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

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803279574 ISBN 13 : 9780803279575

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

K. Tsianina Lomawaima is an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona and the daughter of a former Chilocco student.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803279574
• ISBN 13: 9780803279575
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 215
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• Personne responsable: non disponible