They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (North American Indian Prose Award)

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 togetherâ€”the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 1994-03-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	1994-03-01
Format	Kindle eBook

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (North American Indian Prose Award)