David W. Messer

Chauncey Yellow Robe

A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he found Carlisle Indian School, with its well-documented horrors, was the end of the world as he knew it. Renamed Chauncey Yellow Robe, he flourished at Carlisle, developed a lifelong friendship with founder Richard Pratt, and went on to work at Indian boarding schools for most of his professional life. Despite his acceptance of Indian assimilation, he was adamant that Indians should maintain their identity and was an outspoken critic of their demeaning portrayal in popular Wild West shows. He was the star and technical director of The Silent Enemy (1930), one of the first accurate depictions of Indians on film. His life embodied a cultural conflict that still persists in American society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781476673226
• ISBN-10: 1476673225
• Artikelnr.: 48893735

Autorenporträt

David W. Messer is a retired associate professor in teacher education at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He has presented at the College Board Native American Student Advocacy Institute and the Lakota Nations Conference. He lives in Brevard, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword by Rona Yellow Robe Preface Introduction "Chauncey Yellow Robe" by Badger Clark
1.
Lakota Creation Story
2.
Pratt Comes Calling
3.
Canowicakte's Early Life
4.
Clothes, Hair and Names
5.
Killing the Indian
6.
Chauncey in the White City
7.
Thriving in an Unlikely Environment
8.
A Demented Indian
9.
The Indian Service School System 10.
On the Move 11.
The Rapid City Indian School 12.
Lillian 13.
Relationship to Sitting Bull 14.
The Society of American Indians 15.
Carlos Montezuma 16.
World War I 17.
The Spanish Flu 18.
Wounded Knee and Wild West Shows 19.
The Silent Enemy 20.
Latter Years 21.
The Yellow Robe Daughters 22.
Chauncey's Death 23.
Yellow Robes 24.
The Yellow Robe Name Chapter Notes Bibliography Index