Description
Book SynopsisArnold Krupat’s
From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the anthropologist Morris Opler, as well as material by and about Vincent Natalish, a contemporary of Kenoi and Nicholas.
Natalish was one of more than one hundred Apaches taken from Fort Marion to the Carlisle Indian School by its superintendent, Captain Richard Henry Pratt, in 1887. A considerable number of these students died at the school, and many who were sent home for illness or poor health did not recover. Natalish, however, remained at Carlisle and graduated in 1899. He married, had a son, and lived and worked in New York. He also actively sought the release of his relatives and other Apaches held prisoner at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Apache people have been telling and circulating stories among themselves
Trade Review“The federal Indian boarding schools are an increasingly important subject for both scholars and the general public. Apache autobiographical sources are rare, and so collecting them and making them available is an important contribution.
From the Boarding Schools is written in an accessible style, which is a real strength of this book.”—John R. Gram, author of
Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico’s Indian Boarding SchoolsTable of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sam Kenoi’s School Years, as told by Himself
2. Dan Nicholas’s School Years, as told by Himself
3. Vincent Natalish: His Schooling, Life, and Writing
Notes
References
Index
