Blue star
Subtitle: the story of Corabelle Fellows, teacher at Dakota Missions, 1884-1888
By: Kunigunde Duncan ; with a new introduction by Bruce David Forbes.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Fellows, Corabelle.; Dakota Indians -- Education.; Teachers -- South Dakota -- Biography.; Dakota Indians -- Missions.; Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs.; Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.); Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Description: In 1884, young Corabelle Fellows, well-educated and gently bred, overcame her parents' objections and left her upper-class home in Washington D.C. to become a church-sponsored teacher among the Indian people of Dakota Territory. For the next several years, she taught English, art, and domestic science on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Cheyenne River reservations. In return for her friendship, the students affectionately gave her the name Blue Star. A keen observer, especially of Indian women's and children's lives, she learned much about their family traditions. Her teaching career ended in 1888 when she married Samuel Campbell, a Dakota mixed-blood. Fifty years later, Corabelle recalled her experiences in Dakota land for Kunigunde Duncan, who turned them into this book, first published in 1938.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1938.