Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education
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Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

About this book

At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as "trouble causers, " arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see the Indian warriors they knew only from imagination. Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is an evocative work of creative nonfiction, weaving together history, oral traditions, and personal experience to tell the story of these Indian prisoners.

Resurrecting the voices and experiences of the prisoners who underwent a painful regimen of assimilation, Diane Glancy's work is part history, part documentation of personal accounts, and a search for imaginative openings into the lives of the prisoners who left few of their own records other than carvings in their cellblocks and the famous ledger books. They learned English, mathematics, geography, civics, and penmanship with the knowledge that acquiring the same education as those in the U.S.government would be their best tool for petitioning for freedom. Glancy reveals stories of survival and an intimate understanding of the Fort Marion prisoners' predicament.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Ledger Book Drawing: The Catch, Bear’s Heart
  6. Fort Marion Prisoners
  7. Ride to Prison
  8. The Train Ride
  9. The Animal Show
  10. The Morning Had a Bugle in Its Mouth
  11. Night
  12. Digging a Hole in the Water
  13. Backtrack
  14. The Ax in My Hand
  15. Fort Marion
  16. Ledger Book Drawings (1)
  17. The Life Casts
  18. The Process of Writing (1)
  19. The Ocean Dogs
  20. Ledger Book Drawings (2)
  21. Schooling
  22. A Snapshot of the History of Native Education
  23. The Testimonials (1)
  24. The Process of Writing (2)
  25. Pow Wow at the Seaside
  26. The Escape
  27. Trying to Walk while Holding Marbles on a Board
  28. I Was Herded into School with a Big Chief Tablet under My Arm
  29. There Were Clouds
  30. The Testimonials (2)
  31. The Letters (1)
  32. The Weight of Fire
  33. The Process of Writing (3)
  34. I Will Send My Choice Leopards
  35. Letters for Release
  36. Ride from Prison on a Painted Horse
  37. The Argument
  38. Captain Pratt to the Commissioners
  39. The Process of Writing (4)
  40. An Educational Experience
  41. Undermath
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. Footnote
  44. Bibliography
  45. About Diane Glancy