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Post by yaxchi on Feb 25, 2016 14:03:22 GMT -5
I'm in the planning stages of a book In which the Fort Sill Indian school will be the main setting. I didn't find usable information on the internet, i.e. personal accounts or memories, number of classrooms and teachers, schedule, historical anecdotes (connection to Fort Sill and the region), and how many students, including age range, tribes (Kiowa and Comanche and ...?) and how the school was thought of in the Native community, and if the children were brought on a voluntary basis. I understand the Indian schools were very different and I am trying to get a flavor of this particular one, along with any details that will help it come alive in my story. I know it was opened in 1871 and administered by the Quaker Josiah Butler, but don't know if it continued under the auspices of the Quakers. Any information or source materials, anecdotal or otherwise would be so much appreciated.
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Post by yaxchi on Jul 1, 2015 19:19:54 GMT -5
I bought and read Corbin Harney's 1995 book "The Way It Is" and believe I have done as much research on the web about him as is possible -- yet I find nothing about his birthplace, early life, teenage years, whether he married and had a family, or what his life was like as an adult within his community. I am given to understand that unlike for other tribes, the treaty of 1863 with the Shoshone spoke of removing people to a reservation, but that reservation was never created. I know about Duck Valley, but am unclear if it has the status of a reservation. I believe most of the problems reported about exposure to nuclear contamination came from this place, which must be downwind of Frenchman Flat in the NTS.
Where did Corbin Harney reside for most of his life? Was it Duck Valley? I am wondering how he became an activist, and if his connection to Duck Valley was responsible.
Corbin Harney's dedication as a spiritual leader of the Shoshone people and his efforts to restore Indigenous control over Newe Sogobia deserves fuller treatment (or maybe it has, and I am unaware), and I am hoping that the as-yet unknown details of his origins, his day-to-day existence with his people and within the whirlwind of events surrounding the anti-nuclear movement on Shoshone land, are a vacuum that needs filling with information and research. His death was so recent (2008) that surely there are people who could speak about him, and I would be so grateful to read those accounts.
In Peace, Lorena Cassady
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Post by yaxchi on Jun 27, 2015 17:13:06 GMT -5
The bodies of the people who had been killed with Sitting Bull were placed in one of SB's cabins. According to Ernie LaPointe and other sources, about a week later Reverend T.L. Riggs appeared on the scene and organized the burial. Riggs noticed that someone had the killed orderly dressed. He hired some people to dig a grave, which took some days and buried SB's followers and son. Today there is a marker on the grave. Thanks all for this valuable information. I am planning a trip to see many of the sites connected with the Sioux and Cheyenne wars, so I am hoping to know EXACTLY where to find Crow Foot's grave. Can I get an exact location? Is there a photo somewhere? Some folks above seemed to indicate that the graves were inside of one of SB's cabins. I didn't know he had more than one. Are they still standing?
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Post by yaxchi on Jun 26, 2015 16:34:03 GMT -5
Is it known how Crow Foot died at the time his father was murdered, and what became of his body? Thank you
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