Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 (North American Indian Prose Award)
チカソー族の女子寄宿学校ブロムフィールド・アカデミーの歩みを、口述証言と記録資料を手がかりにたどる歴史書。教育が同化ではなく共同体の持続を支える手段として働いた過程を、学校の設立から制度変化までを通して描く。
作品情報
教育を同化の道具ではなく、共同体を守る力として描き直す。
1852年にチカソー族と宣教師の協力で始まったブロムフィールド・アカデミーは、約1世紀にわたりチカソーの少女たちに教育を提供した。Amanda J. Cobb は、手紙、報告書、聞き取り、学校行事の記録をもとに、この学校が周囲の同化圧力のなかでどのように部族の価値を支え、やがて自己保存の手段となっていったかを描き出す。2000年刊行の原著に加え、2007年には University of Nebraska Press から Bison Books 版が出た。
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私的な熱意が強く伝わる一冊で、聞き取り資料を丁寧に生かした点が評価されている。一方で、同時代の他校との比較を広げてほしかったという見方もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of Nebraska Pr
- 発売日
- 2000-12-01
- ページ数
- 162ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780803215092
- ISBN-10
- 0803215096
- 価格
- 17740 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Native American Studies
Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the West. After being forcibly relocated to Indian Territory, the Chickasaws viewed education as instrumental to their survival in a rapidly changing world. Bloomfield became their way to prepare emerging generations of Chickasaw girls for new challenges and opportunities. Amanda J. Cobb became interested in Bloomfield Academy because of her grandmother, Ida Mae Pratt Cobb, an alumna from the 1920s. Drawing on letters, reports, interviews with students, and school programs, Cobb recounts the academy’s success story. In stark contrast to the federally run off-reservation boarding schools in operation at the time, Bloomfield represents a rare instance of tribal control in education. For the Chickasaw Nation, Bloomfield―a tool of assimilation―became an important method of self-preservation.
Amanda J. Cobb is an associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico and is the editor of American Indian Quarterly . She is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
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Wonderful!, Wonderful!, I loved it. I ordered one for my Mom and one for my Sister. My Mom went nuts over it. She knew so many names and my Great, Great, Great, Aunt Estelle Chisholm was a professor who taught at the Academy. My Mom told us a story about her. The book has inspired me to do more research on my family. I was amazed at learning the resilience of the Chickasaw people and their will to survive. I am also proud to know that they did not only survive but they made a point that will stick with me for all my life. The will to learn is the only way to survive in this world.
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My grandmother attended this school and then transferred to Oklahoma Presbyterian College. Reading this book was; for me, like asking her things I have wanted to ask her as an adult. There was her childhood that she never talked about. I will treasure this book!
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Beautifully told stories of a bygone era! Thank you for helping to keep this treasured past alive! Chikasha saya!
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