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Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

Name: Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
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Contributors:

Diane Glancy

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

American, 19th Century

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Release Date:

2014-11-01

ISBN 13:

9780803249677

Weight:

0.38 lbs

Size:

8.49 x 5.60 x 0.34 inches

Pages:

136

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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.

About the Author

Diane Glancy is an emerita professor of English at Macalester College and is currently a professor at Azusa Pacific University in California. She is the author of numerous novels, including Claiming Breath (Nebraska, 1992), Designs of the Night Sky (Nebraska, 2002), and The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha.

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