They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by K. Tsianina Lomawaima

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

K. Tsianina Lomawaima

215 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction education history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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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 char...

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