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Many places around the Sooner State have qualified to be on the National Register of Historic Places – an official list of the U.S. government that includes
WARNING: Chilocco is heavily guarded by 24/7 security. This is not a place for you to get in your car and go visit. This is for your online viewing pleasure
WARNING: Chilocco is heavily guarded by 24/7 security. This is not a place for you to get in your car and go visit. This is for your online viewing pleasure
Located in Pawnee County, Skedee is a ghost town in rural Oklahoma that most people have long forgotten. See the remains of what used to be.
Founded in 1883-84, the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School was one of the first, large off-reservation boarding schools established by the Federal government for the education of American Indian students. It offered academic and vocational training to children of tribes across the United States. This dataset comprises an historical collection of manuscripts and records pertaining to the school and its pupils.
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 students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together—the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones. Paperback. 1995.
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Located in Pawnee County, Skedee is a ghost town in rural Oklahoma that most people have long forgotten. See the remains of what used to be.
Among its collections, the SWC houses several related to Native American organizations. Altogether, these records document significant portions of the 20th century history of Native Americans in We…
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Kay County, OK Listed: 09/09/2006 The Chilocco Indian Agricultural School campus contains 76 total resources, including buildings, structures, sites, and objects. This historic district is eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A at the national level of significance as an intact district that embodies the federal government’s policies toward the education of Native American children from the inception of the non-reservation system in the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. Established as one of the first wave of schools modeled after Carlisle Indian School, Chilocco offered academic and vocational training to children of tribes across the United States. Its mission of assimilation and the acculturation matured as advances in educational theory and relations between the federal government and tribes improved. The campus, abandoned as a school in 1980, embodies in its buildings, structures, and layout the philosophy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs policies. Its collection of historic buildings, its overall historic integrity is second to none among the significant non-reservation schools, including sister school Haskell Institute (NHL) in Kansas and the model school Carlisle Indian School (NHL) in Pennsylvania. The Chilocco Indian Agricultural School is also significant at the state level under Criterion C for its cohesive collection of limestone buildings, built by the federal government. The use of locally quarried stone in the vast majority of the buildings on campus provides a unity of design, a continuity of theme, and a visual cohesion that is rivaled only by the facilities at Fort Sill, a cavalry fort established in the 1870s and designated an NHL in 1960. The stylistic elements of the campus reflect the maturity of the school from its inception in the 1880s through its eventual abandonment in 1980. Buildings representing different eras, direct functions, and different stylistic vocabularies are unified by the common use of quarry faced limestone.
Congress authorized this school for Indian children in 1882. Before its closing in the 1970s, Chilocco was one of the largest Indian schools in the United States. On part of the original 9,000 acres set aside for the school, a major arc ...
It was no coincidence that Wes Studi was cast an the tribal chief Eytukan in James Cameron's Avatar. From the days he was in Dances With Wolves, Studi's been a go-to guy for authentic native American characterizations.
Portrait of Native American Apache Geronimo, seated at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1904.
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Portrait of Lulu Anderson, an eighteen year old Native American Kickapoo woman dressed in western dress at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1904. Taught Domestic Science...
This souvenir booklet is reproduced in forty-nine consecutive images in this stream. Parade Feature, by sixteen Indian girls from the Government School at Chilocco, O.T. (These girls composed the Mandolin Orchestra that played in the booth of the Santa Fe Indian Feature.) O.T. indicates Oklahoma Territory, which became the state of Oklahoma in 1907.
Side view portrait of a Native American Iroquois Seneca woman, Lena Cayuga, aged 17 years old at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1904. She taught or demonstrated...
Louise Christine Kozine, (the daughter of Kozine or Abner Kozine & Beshád-e) - Chiricahua Apache - circa 1915 {Note: Louise Christine Kozine was born at Fort Sill on 16 November 1904, and later...
Woody Crumbo vintage serigraph 'Spirit Horse' depicts a bright blue horse with a white mane, tail, and spotted body. This Native American artist of the Potawatomi Tribe in Oaklahoma (1919-1989) painted horses in unusual colors to express the spirits of the animals. This was his most popular painting. Framed in a dark walnut-stained, ornately molded wooden frame behind glass. A prolific artist, he studied at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Wichita American Indian Institute, Wichita University, and the University of Oklahoma. He traveled the US as a Native American dancer, selling his artwork on these tours, and eventually became the Director of Art at the Bacone College in Muskogee, OK. He also curated a collection of Native American art at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, which adopted his 'Peyote Bird' painting as their logo. Dimensions of frame 23" x 19" x 2.25" Dimensions of art 18" x 14" less
