This item: They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (North American Indian Prose Award… by K. Tsianina Lomawaima Paperback $17.99 Only 8 left in stock (more on the way). Peer group solidarity was essential to student resistance, but the nature of peer groups differed between boys and girls and among different age groups. This book contains 95 secondary references (in addition to school and federal records), photographs, and an index. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. Lomawaima, K. Tsianina Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) was a federal off-reservation boarding school intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) was a federal off-reservation boarding school intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. (SV).

When Muscogee citizen Curtis Carr entered Chilocco Indian School as a nine-year-old boy in 1927, he probably never imagined that his own daughter would later write an award-winning history of the school. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. University of Nebraska Press, 312 N. 14th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0484 ($25). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. This book examines the relations of power within the school to comprehend federal disciplinary practice and the strategies Indian children devised to escape it. In recollections juxtaposed against official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, these alumni recall their loneliness and demoralization, but also remember the love and mutual support binding them together, their creative rebellions against authority, the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones, the skills and trades they mastered, and the leadership they developed.

In contrast to previous studies detailing federal policy and practice in such boarding schools, this book draws on and analyzes interviews with 61 Native Americans who attended Chilocco in the 1920s and 1930s.

Prairie Light richly portrays daily routines and common experiences, those controlled by staff and those hidden from their view.

They Called It Prairie Light book. Appendices describe interview participants and methodology. More importantly, the book explores the different experiences of boys and girls, mixed- and full … They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima (University of Nebraska Press, 1994).

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