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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Nananumpolit aiya (to start to tell a story ): literacy and schooling; value: Chickasha chepota alhehat holisso apisa aiyacha itanumpoli micha holissochi (Chicasaw children go to the school to read and write): schooling as tradition; value: Chickasha eho himita iholisso apisa (Chickasaw girl's school): Bloomfield under missionary and tribal control; value: Eho inanaumpolit (the women's story): Bloomfield academy and Carter seminary under federal control; value: Nananumpoli otalhli (to end the story).