Listening to our grandmothers' stories
Subtitle: the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949
By: Amanda J. Cobb.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females -- History; Chickasaw girls -- Education; Chickasaw girls -- Social conditions; Chickasaw girls -- History -- Sources; Off-reservation boarding schools -- Oklahoma -- History
Genres: Sources.
Description: "Drawing on letters, reports, interviews with students, and school programs, Cobb tells the story of Bloomfield and its students, showing the type of education that the Chickasaw students received, how Bloomfield's curriculum changed over time, and the elements that set the academy apart from most other schools attended by Native American children even after it was taken over by the federal government.

For the Chickasaw Nation, Bloomfield, a tool of assimilation, became in reality an important method of self-preservation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and index.