The boy who promised me horses
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Cambridge Public Library - Current | 373.11 C | On Order |
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Charpentier, David Joseph.
Cheyenne Indians -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
High school teachers -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
Indian high school students -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Prairie Chief, Maurice.
Teacher-student relationships -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
Cheyenne Indians -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
High school teachers -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
Indian high school students -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation -- Biography.
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Prairie Chief, Maurice.
Teacher-student relationships -- Montana -- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
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xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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'He tried to outrun a train,' Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief's death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, Prairie Chief was the first student he had met, and the one with whom he formed the closest bonds. From the shock of moving from a bucolic Minnesota college to teach at a small, remote reservation school in eastern Montana, Charpentier details the complex and emotional challenges of Indigenous education in the United States. Although he intended his teaching tenure at St. Labre to be short, Charpentier's involvement with the school has extended beyond thirty years. Unlike many white teachers who came and left the reservation, Charpentier has remained committed to the potentialities of Indigenous education, motivated by the early friendship he formed with Prairie Chief, who taught him lessons far and wide, from dealing with buffalo while riding a horse to coping with student dropout she would never see again. Told through episodic experiences, the story takes a journey back in time as Charpentier searches for answers to Prairie Chief's life. As he sits on top of the sledding hill near the cemetery where Prairie Chief is buried, Charpentier finds solace in the memories of their shared (mis)adventures and their mutual respect hard won through the challenges of educational and cultural mistrust.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Charpentier, D. J. (2024). The boy who promised me horses . University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Charpentier, David Joseph. 2024. The Boy Who Promised Me Horses. University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Charpentier, David Joseph. The Boy Who Promised Me Horses University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Charpentier, David Joseph. The Boy Who Promised Me Horses University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
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