Joaquin Eternally Pakwa: Book One

Joaquin Eternally Pakwa: Book One

In the 1880s the United States Government expanded their idea of civilizing the Indians through forcefully removing Indian children and placing them in Indian boarding schools throughout the west, where they intended to educate the children in Christianity and the white manâ€™s way. In 1887 the government built a boarding school in Keams Canyon Arizona and they began removing Hopi and Navajo children from their homes, sending them away from their families and placing them in the newly built boarding school.
In 1938, a young half breed Hopi boy that his grandmother called Pakwa, which was his Hopi name, was taken from the grandmother that had raised him. He was placed in Keams Canyon Boarding School, a school that by then was deteriorating, where conditions were less than ideal. The children were half starved and were often abused by unscrupulous members of the staff.
Joaquin Neilsen, Pakwaâ€™s Christian name, wasnâ€™t merely bullied by the older Navajo boys at the school because of hostilities between the Navajo and the Hopi people, but he was also singled out by the Headmaster for physical abuse for perceived infractions of his strict rules.
When Joaquin was sent home to his grandmother, in the middle of the school year to heal from serious injuries sustained during an episode of one of the Headmasterâ€™s harsh disciplinary actions, his grandmother decided that in order to save her orphaned grandsonâ€™s life, she would have to send him away from the reservation to live with his great Uncle Jake on the white manâ€™s ranch near Winslow.
The lessons his grandmother taught him about his motherâ€™s people, the Hopi, stayed with him in the white manâ€™s world, his fatherâ€™s world. His grandmotherâ€™s words revisited him often, reminding him that the Hopi were a people of peace, even after he was drafted into the Army at the age of eighteen and sent off to war in the Korean Conflict.
This is Joaquinâ€™s story as he attempts to live in two worlds, the world of the Hopi and the world of the white man.
Country USA
Author Melva J. Henderson
Binding Kindle Edition
Edition 2
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 198
PublicationDate 2012-12-21
ReleaseDate 2012-12-21

Country	USA
Author	Melva J. Henderson
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	198
PublicationDate	2012-12-21
ReleaseDate	2012-12-21

Joaquin Eternally Pakwa: Book One

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