They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School

They Called It Prairie Light

The Story of Chilocco Indian School

By
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
1994 • 244 pages

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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74 books

Native American

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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Not a Nation of Immigrants
The Round House
Give Me Some Truth
Apple: Skin to the Core

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234 books

Memoir

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Shout
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
This Time for Me
Chronically Me: Flushing Out My Life and Times With IBS: A Memoir in Comics
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today

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9 books

Residential Schools

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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens
Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience
Black Water
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story

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American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy