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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
About this book
Finalist for the 2025 High Plains Book Award
Longlisted for the Reading the West Award
“He tried to outrun a train,” Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief’s death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, Prairie Chief was the first student he met and the one with whom he formed the closest bonds.
From the shock of moving from a bucolic Minnesota college to teach at a small, remote reservation school in eastern Montana, Charpentier details the complex and emotional challenges of Indigenous education in the United States. Although he intended his teaching tenure at St. Labre to be short, Charpentier’s involvement with the school has extended past thirty years. Unlike many white teachers who came and left the reservation, Charpentier has remained committed to the potentialities of Indigenous education, motivated by the early friendship he formed with Prairie Chief, who taught him lessons far and wide, from dealing with buffalo while riding a horse to coping with student dropouts he would never see again.
Told through episodic experiences, the story takes a journey back in time as Charpentier searches for answers to Prairie Chief’s life. As he sits on top of the sledding hill near the cemetery where Prairie Chief is buried, Charpentier finds solace in the memories of their shared (mis)adventures and their mutual respect, hard won through the challenges of educational and cultural mistrust.
Longlisted for the Reading the West Award
“He tried to outrun a train,” Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief’s death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, Prairie Chief was the first student he met and the one with whom he formed the closest bonds.
From the shock of moving from a bucolic Minnesota college to teach at a small, remote reservation school in eastern Montana, Charpentier details the complex and emotional challenges of Indigenous education in the United States. Although he intended his teaching tenure at St. Labre to be short, Charpentier’s involvement with the school has extended past thirty years. Unlike many white teachers who came and left the reservation, Charpentier has remained committed to the potentialities of Indigenous education, motivated by the early friendship he formed with Prairie Chief, who taught him lessons far and wide, from dealing with buffalo while riding a horse to coping with student dropouts he would never see again.
Told through episodic experiences, the story takes a journey back in time as Charpentier searches for answers to Prairie Chief’s life. As he sits on top of the sledding hill near the cemetery where Prairie Chief is buried, Charpentier finds solace in the memories of their shared (mis)adventures and their mutual respect, hard won through the challenges of educational and cultural mistrust.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. As Brief as His Life
- 2. What I Knew
- 3. Cool, Indian Kids!
- 4. Teacher Dave from Minnesota
- 5. Fishing at Sitting Man Dam
- 6. Needed: High School English Teacher
- 7. Sleep, without Restless Dreams
- 8. Iāve Never Been Good at Algebra
- 9. Chimney Rock
- 10. Labor Day Powwow
- 11. Eagleman and Hawkman
- 12. Peyote Meeting at the Medicine Bullsā
- 13. The Search for Fisherās Butte
- 14. New Possibilities That Felt like Gifts
- 15. Sweat Hobo
- 16. Stag Rock and Birthdays at the Runs Abovesā
- 17. Get Studly to Run
- 18. It Makes Me Think of Uncle Doug
- 19. The Huckleberry Party and Others
- 20. The Balance of This Day
- 21. Pissing the Day Away
- 22. Hawkman Tries to Say Goodbye to Eagleman
- 23. What Elaine Littlebird Said
- 24. Time and Distance
- 25. You Donāt Wanna Help Me, Then, Do You?
- 26. Shooting Star
- 27. I Should Have Known More
- 28. Swallowed by the Darkness
- 29. He Knows How to Ride
- 30. I Wanted Him to Stay
- 31. All the Words I Was Forming, I Held Onto
- 32. Wrong about Buffalo One More Time
- About David Joseph Charpentier