Format:
1 online resource (102 pages)
ISBN:
9780803256941
Content:
At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as "trouble causers," arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see the Indian warriors they knew only from imagination. Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is an evocative work of creative nonfiction, weaving together history, oral traditions, and personal experience to tell the story of these Indian prisoners. Resurrecting the voices and experiences of the prisoners who underwent a painful regimen of assimilation, Diane Glancy's work is part history, part documentation of personal accounts, and a search for imaginative openings into the lives of the prisoners who left few of their own records other than carvings in their cellblocks and the famous ledger books. They learned English, mathematics, geography, civics, and penmanship with the knowledge that acquiring the same education as those in the U.S. government would be their best tool for petitioning for freedom. Glancy reveals stories of survival and an intimate understanding of the Fort Marion prisoners' predicament.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Ledger Book Drawing: The Catch, Bear's Heart -- Fort Marion Prisoners -- Photograph of Fort Marion Prisoners -- Ride to Prison -- The Train Ride -- Ledger Book Drawing: Buffalo Hunt, Bear's Heart -- The Animal Show -- The Morning Had a Bugle in Its Mouth -- Night -- Digging a Hole in the Water -- Ledger Book Drawing: Boarding the Steam Boat, Bear's Heart -- Backtrack -- Ledger Book Drawing: Chart of Goods for Sale, Buffalo Meat -- The Ax in My Hand -- Ledger Book Drawing: Military Formation at Fort Marion, Bear's Heart -- Fort Marion -- Ledger Book Drawings (1) -- The Life Casts -- Photograph of Life Casts -- The Process of Writing (1) -- The Ocean Dogs -- Ledger Book Drawings (2) -- Ledger Book Drawing: Bishop Whipple in his Shark Suit, Bear's Heart -- Schooling -- Ledger Book Drawing: The Schoolroom, Bear's Heart -- A Snapshot of the History of Native Education -- The Testimonials (1) -- The Process of Writing (2) -- Pow Wow at the Seaside -- The Escape -- Ledger Book Drawing: Trees with Hair Standing Up, Bear's Heart -- Trying to Walk while Holding Marbles on a Board -- I Was Herded into School with a Big Chief Tablet under My Arm -- There Were Clouds -- The Testimonials (2) -- The Letters (1) -- The Weight of Fire -- The Process of Writing (3) -- I Will Send My Choice Leopards -- Letters for Release -- Ride from Prison on a Painted Horse -- The Argument -- Captain Pratt to the Commissioners -- The Process of Writing (4) -- An Educational Experience -- Ledger Book Drawing: Crossing Eads Bridge, Bear's Heart -- Undermath -- Photograph of former Fort Marion Prisoners at Hampton Institute -- Acknowledgments -- Footnote -- Bibliography -- About Diane Glancy.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803249677
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780803249677
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1781582
