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They Called it Prairie Light

The Story of Chilocco Indian School

By: K. Tsianina Lomawaima

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They Called it Prairie Light

The Story of Chilocco Indian School

By: K. Tsianina Lomawaima

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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244

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U of Nebraska Press

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ISBN 10

0803279574

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9780803279575

Uneven Ground

American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law

By: David Eugene Wilkins,K. Tsianina Lomawaima

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Uneven Ground

American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law

By: David Eugene Wilkins,K. Tsianina Lomawaima

In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care, education, religious freedom, law enforcement, gaming, and taxation. David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of the ambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806133953

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9780806133959