They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) 5x7 and legacy

and legacy

For ages 8 and up

For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines

and holding the hill

the citizens of Kentucky debated the issue of whether to join the Union or Confederacy

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) 5x7 and legacyby K. Tsianina Lomawaima Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality that K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex. Lomawaima allows the Chilocco