One House, One Voice, One Heart: Native American Education at the Santa Fe Indian School

Description

Author: Hyer, Sally

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press (Santa Fe, NM)

Pub Date: 1990

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Slight wear to all corners.  Horizontal format, 11″ x 10″.

Notes:  Founded in 1890 as one of two Indian boarding schools in New Mexico the SFIS continues to this day, though in a much altered form.  In the 1990’s the school was taken over by the All Indian Pueblo Council and became  “…a tribally controlled school governed by a Board of Trustees. In 2000, with the signing of the Santa Fe Indian School Act, this land was turned over to be held in trust for the 19 Pueblo Governors of New Mexico. This has allowed SFIS to build a program based on educational sovereignty – the right and responsibility to educate New Mexico Indian children in manner that supports their cultural and traditional belief systems.” (From the SFIS website.  See https://www.sfis.k12.nm.us/why-sfis/our-history  )  Lots of historical black-and-white photographs (though not a lot of smiling Indians).  My late Navajo friend Irvin ran away from the boarding school he had been sent to in Arizona, twice.  After the second time his parents said he didn’t have to return to the school.