Review of They Called It Prairie Light: The S tory of Chilocco Indian School By K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Authors

Matthew L. Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:3 (Summer 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

They Called it Prairie Light is the best book I have read recently about life in the boarding school system. The narration and interviews are interwoven into an easy readable style. Lomawaima has done an exceptional job of painting a very richly textured picture of Native peoples' undaunted spirit.