Chilocco History Project

Items

• Boarding School Stories, Memories and Histories
  A public lecture at the Oklahoma State University Library by Dr. Tsianina K. Lomawaima and former Chilocco Indian Agricultural School student and superintendent, Jim Baker
• The Great War and Its Legacy: "Chilocco Goes to War"
  Dr. Mary Jane Warde examines the "Chilocco boys" from the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School who served in the Great War for an Oklahoma State University Library lecture series: The Great War.
• Chilocco Indian School Index
  This index includes the names of more than 17,000 students who attended Chilocco Indian Agricultural School (also known as Chilocco Indian Industrial School, Chilocco Indian School, and Haworth Institute). The index was created using multiple sources, including the Chilocco Indian School Collection (1996.069), teachers' reports, school yearbooks, student rosters, US census, and information from the National Chilocco Alumni Association.
• Chilocco History Project Research File
  A list of online resources of Chilocco history related material available online. This list was compiled by student researcher in summer 2017 and referenced and tweaked throughout the three years of this research project.
• "They called it prairie light" : oral histories from Chilocco Indian agricultrual boarding school
• Chilocco Survivors: Contested Discourses in Narrative Responses to Ponca Alcohol Abuse
  This paper discusses the effects of the Chilocco Indian School boarding school experience on members of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma through the lens of attitudes towards alcohol use and abuse. I argue that narrative storytelling reveals conflicting discourses that grapple with whether derivation of the Chilocco ideology of personal responsibility for alcohol is acceptable or beneficial. Drawing on Singer et al (1992) and Spicer (1997, 2006), I utilize an analytical framework that links the realities of political economy with the effects of communal transmission of historical trauma across generations. I argue that contestation illustrates that Ogbu?s (1990, 1992) theory of cultural inversion is not wholly applicable. Some alumnae find the American ideal of personal responsibility useful; others disparage the application of personal responsibility to alcohol abuse as another American attack. I conclude that both approaches are politically motivated acts aimed at eliminating alcohol abuse.
• The study of the mathematics program at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School
• Chilocco Indian Agricultural School: A study in assimilation and education
• Chilocco Indian Boarding School: tool for assimiliation, home for Indian youth
  Chilocco Indian School, which opened in 1884, served the educational needs of American Indian students from all over the United States for nearly one hundred years. Its story is one of students and faculty working together to produce what was considered by many of its students one of the finest non-reservation federal Indian boarding schools in the nation. Its story is also a reflection of federal intervention, not always positive, in the education of Indian youth. Three works about Chilocco have been written to date. Larry Bradfield wrote a masters thesis that was a mainly administrative account from 1884 to 1955. Kimberly Tsianina Lomawaima wrote her doctoral dissertation, later published as a book, on the period from 1920 to 1940, based on oral histories. Dr. Leon Wall, former superintendent of Chilocco, in 1979 published a defense of his tenure at Chilocco. This project is an attempt to utilize administrative, federal government, and especially student accounts of Chilocco's nearly one- hundred-year history to reach some sort of balanced history of the school.
• "It was an Indian School": an ethnographic account of Cherokee women who attended Chilocco Indian Agricutlural School, 1950-1959
• A pattern of high school education for the Chilocco Indian school
• Chilocco: Health conditions at a Natie American boarding school, 1884-1930
• A history of Chilocco Indian School