The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses

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The Boy Who Promised Me Horses

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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 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 past 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 dropouts he 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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Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9781496239488
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Native American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1. As Brief as His Life
  11. 2. What I Knew
  12. 3. Cool, Indian Kids!
  13. 4. Teacher Dave from Minnesota
  14. 5. Fishing at Sitting Man Dam
  15. 6. Needed: High School English Teacher
  16. 7. Sleep, without Restless Dreams
  17. 8. I’ve Never Been Good at Algebra
  18. 9. Chimney Rock
  19. 10. Labor Day Powwow
  20. 11. Eagleman and Hawkman
  21. 12. Peyote Meeting at the Medicine Bulls’
  22. 13. The Search for Fisher’s Butte
  23. 14. New Possibilities That Felt like Gifts
  24. 15. Sweat Hobo
  25. 16. Stag Rock and Birthdays at the Runs Aboves’
  26. 17. Get Studly to Run
  27. 18. It Makes Me Think of Uncle Doug
  28. 19. The Huckleberry Party and Others
  29. 20. The Balance of This Day
  30. 21. Pissing the Day Away
  31. 22. Hawkman Tries to Say Goodbye to Eagleman
  32. 23. What Elaine Littlebird Said
  33. 24. Time and Distance
  34. 25. You Don’t Wanna Help Me, Then, Do You?
  35. 26. Shooting Star
  36. 27. I Should Have Known More
  37. 28. Swallowed by the Darkness
  38. 29. He Knows How to Ride
  39. 30. I Wanted Him to Stay
  40. 31. All the Words I Was Forming, I Held Onto
  41. 32. Wrong about Buffalo One More Time
  42. About David Joseph Charpentier