They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) glassware Troy Anacona (Editor)

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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) glassware Troy Anacona (Editor)by K. Tsianina Lomawaima 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 characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality that K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex. Lomawaima allows the Chilocco