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Creation Date
2000
Description
Two page spread with two black and white photographs. One photograph has small children in front of building with miniature indigenous tents. Another image are indigenous children sitting at a table. Edited by Margaret L. Archuleta, Brenda J. Child and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Published by Heard Museum. Text on pages include quotes: "Our name isn't supposed to be Jones [but] Chonku, [or] something like that and the teachers couldn't say it right so they just give us Jones. - Walter B. Jones, Born 1926, Santee Sioux, Attended Flandreau ( Heard Museum, 1999) -"when you first started attending school, they look at you, guessed how old you were, set your birthday, and gave you an age. Then they'd assign you a Christian name. Mine turned out to be Fred."- Fred Kabotie, Hopi, Born 1900, Attended Sant Fe Indian School 1915-1920 (Kabotie 1977) -Image caption: Little girl's playground, Crow Agency, Montana, n.d. There were some surprising exceptions to boarding schools repression of Native cultures. In several schools on the Northern Plains, little girls were allowed to recreate camp life during playtime. One of the tipis on the left appears to be covered with a gingham tablecloth -Kindergarten class at Riverside Indian School, near Anadarko, OK, 1901.
Keywords
Indiana State University, University Archives, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Education Exhibit