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Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans

Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans Indian Play Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans lisa k. neuman Missionaries come to Oklahoma, Find Indians need much knowledge, Build big school on hill-top, Call 'em Bacone College. Indians hear 'bout big school On hill-top far away, Send boys and girls--learn something-- Humph! Maybe so, some day. Indians come from all directions; From Montana, land of Crow, Through Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico--where wild Zuni grow. At first Indian get much homesick; Too much books and rules; Want go back to tepees-- No like 'em White Man's School. President tell 'em--No get discouraged. Some day he give 'em sheepskin. "Humph! Got sheep ranch in Montana, Want go back home again." Sometimes "Mating Moon" shine on hill-top; Braves steal maidens' hearts away, Some go home--get married-- Rest--want knowledge--stay. Twelve Great Suns pass since we come here, Few drop out, few new come in; We fight brave fight, all way through Now we want 'em Sheep Skin. --Ruth Hopkins (Choctaw), Bacone high school valedictorian, 1928 In the spring of 1928 Ruth Hopkins, a student at Bacone College, an American Baptist high school and junior college for American Indians in Muskogee, Oklahoma, wrote a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans

Neuman, Lisa Kay
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 32 (2) – Mar 18, 2008
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Indian Play Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans lisa k. neuman Missionaries come to Oklahoma, Find Indians need much knowledge, Build big school on hill-top, Call 'em Bacone College. Indians hear 'bout big school On hill-top far away, Send boys and girls--learn something-- Humph! Maybe so, some day. Indians come from all directions; From Montana, land of Crow, Through Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico--where wild Zuni grow. At first Indian get much homesick; Too much books and rules; Want go back to tepees-- No like 'em White Man's School. President tell 'em--No get discouraged. Some day he give 'em sheepskin. "Humph! Got sheep ranch in Montana, Want go back home again." Sometimes "Mating Moon" shine on hill-top; Braves steal maidens' hearts away, Some go home--get married-- Rest--want knowledge--stay. Twelve Great Suns pass since we come here, Few drop out, few new come in; We fight brave fight, all way through Now we want 'em Sheep Skin. --Ruth Hopkins (Choctaw), Bacone high school valedictorian, 1928 In the spring of 1928 Ruth Hopkins, a student at Bacone College, an American Baptist high school and junior college for American Indians in Muskogee, Oklahoma, wrote a

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