Ponca Tribal leader with students
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Ponca Students
Students with the Souther Ponca Digital Media Club
White Eagle, OK 2012
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At Standing Bear Museum
Southern Ponca Digital Media Club students, Catherine and Samantha with Oliver Littlecook at the museum site
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Story time at Headstart
Cherokee Nation Headstart kids listen to a story.
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Osage girl
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Looking at new life
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Carlisle Indian School 1885
"From 1879 until the 1960s, more than one-hundred thousand Native American children were forced to attend government-run boarding schools in an effort to ‘”civililze” them."
Historical Photo: Indian pupils in front of Pratts quarters.
Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, PA 1885