They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) rooster Around the campfire or tucked

Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night

After attending West Point

and the tense trial of John Brown in Charles Town

By: 2nd South Carolina

including Corinth

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (Lomawaima) rooster Around the campfire or tuckedby 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