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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Glancy is not only an insightful historian but a gifted storyteller. The craft, creativity, and imagination with which she renders this amazing text powerfully draw the reader into the world of the Fort Marion prisoners. Few texts to date have portrayed their experiences with the upheavals of a changing world with such intimacy and humanism."—Steven Williams,
American Studies"A memorable book. Intuitively and perceptively connecting the difficult journeys of late nineteenth-century Southern Plains Indians and her own difficult journeys more than one hundred years later, Glancy gives us valuable, evocative ways of imagining the Great Plains and its peoples in motion, undertaking often painful and traumatic journeys to understand who they are, where they have been, and where they might be going."—Eric Gary Anderson,
Great Plains Quarterly“Diane Glancy inhabits a world of images that breathe life and voice for the voiceless men, women, and children. . . . No simple history lesson, this, as Glancy examines how language is both captor and savior, another means of imprisonment and also liberation.”—Gina Ochsner, author of
The Necessary Grace to Fall“This book is mesmerizing and will stay with you for lifetimes.”—Jackie Old Coyote, Apsaalooke Nation, former director of education and outreach at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
“The survival of Indian people represents one of the most important subjects in American history. Glancy creates a multilayered narrative about the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho Indians, who became prisoners of the United States government during the late nineteenth century. She invites readers to contemplate the bleak realities and the difficult choices presented by historical circumstances.”—Brad Lookingbill, professor of history at Columbia College of Missouri
Table of 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
Bibliography
