Chilocco: Memories of a Native American Boarding School

Description

Chilocco: Memories of a Native American Boarding School provides a very rare glimpse inside the educational institution that has been closed and completely inaccessible to the public for more than thirty years.
Located just south of Arkansas City| on the Oklahoma/Kansas boarder| the doors of the school opened to one hundred Native American students in 1884 under the direction of Major James Haworth and remained open until 1980| a span of nearly one hundred years.
During that time| 18|000 students from 126 different Native American tribes attended.
This book includes students memories of time spent on the 8|640 acre campus along with over one hundred and thirty historic pictures of Chilocco Indian Agricultural School.
The once beautiful and meticulously maintained campus called| “Prairie Light” has fallen victim to the harsh Oklahoma elements since closing and many of the roughly 80 remaining structures are now collapsing.
The priceless ruins earned Chilocco a spot on the list of Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Historic Places in 2009.