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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Cover -- Ledger Book Drawing: The Catch, Bear�s Heart -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Fort Marion Prisoners -- Photograph of Fort Marion Prisoners -- Ride to Prison -- The Train Ride -- Ledger Book Drawing: Buffalo Hunt, Bear�s Heart -- The Animal Show -- The Morning Had a Bugle in Its Mouth -- Night -- Digging a Hole in the Water -- Ledger Book Drawing: Boarding the Steam Boat, Bear�s Heart -- Backtrack -- Ledger Book Drawing: Chart of Goods for Sale, Buffalo Meat -- The Ax in My Hand |
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Ledger Book Drawing: Military Formation at Fort Marion, Bear�s HeartFort Marion -- Ledger Book Drawings (1) -- The Life Casts -- Photograph of Life Casts -- The Process of Writing (1) -- The Ocean Dogs -- Ledger Book Drawings (2) -- Ledger Book Drawing: Bishop Whipple in his Shark Suit, Bear�s Heart -- Schooling -- Ledger Book Drawing: The Schoolroom, Bear�s Heart -- A Snapshot of the History of Native Education -- The Testimonials (1) -- The Process of Writing (2) -- Pow Wow at the Seaside -- The Escape |
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Ledger Book Drawing: Trees with Hair Standing Up, Bear�s HeartTrying to Walk while Holding Marbles on a Board -- I Was Herded into School with a Big Chief Tablet under My Arm -- There Were Clouds -- The Testimonials (2) -- The Letters (1) -- The Weight of Fire -- The Process of Writing (3) -- I Will Send My Choice Leopards -- Letters for Release -- Ride from Prison on a Painted Horse -- The Argument -- Captain Pratt to the Commissioners -- The Process of Writing (4) -- An Educational Experience -- Ledger Book Drawing: Crossing Eads Bridge, Bear�s Heart |
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UndermathPhotograph of former Fort Marion Prisoners at Hampton Institute -- Acknowledgments -- Footnote -- Bibliography -- About Diane Glancy |
| Summary |
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 priso |
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Print version record |
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Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Florida -- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine)
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Indian prisoners -- Florida -- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine)
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Prisoners of war -- Florida -- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine)
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Indians, Treatment of -- Florida -- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine)
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Indian prisoners
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
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Indians of North America -- Relocation
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Indians, Treatment of
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Prisoners of war
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803256941 |
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0803256949 |
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