Where courage is like a wild horse : the world of an Indian orphanage /
Skolnick, Sharon, 1944 October 3-
Where courage is like a wild horse : the world of an Indian orphanage / Sharon Skolnick and Manny Skolnick. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1997. - 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages)
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The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage in this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled back and forth between foster homes and orphanages, they finally ended up at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and ultimately triumphal account of the year the sisters spent there. Murrow was a place of wonder and terror, friendship and loneliness, where resilient children forged shifting alliances and conspired together yet yearned in solitude for a home and family to call their own. Skolnick paints an absorbing portrait of the world of an Indian orphanage, a world both bright and dark, vividly rendered through a child's eyes but tempered by the perspective of the woman who survived the Indian child welfare system and became an Apache artist.
Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
0585281068 (electronic bk.) 9780585281063 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
Skolnick, Sharon, 1944 October 3-
Skolnick, Sharon, 1944 October 3-
Murrow Indian Orphanage.
Murrow Indian Orphanage.
Chiricahua Indians--Biography.
Indian children--Social conditions.--Oklahoma
Chiricahua (Indiens)--Biographies.
Enfants indiens d'Amérique--Conditions sociales.--Oklahoma
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Chiricahua Indians.
Indian children--Social conditions.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Oklahoma.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
E99.C68 / S53 1997eb
976.6/004972
U5001 T605 -1997
Where courage is like a wild horse : the world of an Indian orphanage / Sharon Skolnick and Manny Skolnick. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1997. - 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages)
Use copy
The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage in this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled back and forth between foster homes and orphanages, they finally ended up at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and ultimately triumphal account of the year the sisters spent there. Murrow was a place of wonder and terror, friendship and loneliness, where resilient children forged shifting alliances and conspired together yet yearned in solitude for a home and family to call their own. Skolnick paints an absorbing portrait of the world of an Indian orphanage, a world both bright and dark, vividly rendered through a child's eyes but tempered by the perspective of the woman who survived the Indian child welfare system and became an Apache artist.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
0585281068 (electronic bk.) 9780585281063 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
Skolnick, Sharon, 1944 October 3-
Skolnick, Sharon, 1944 October 3-
Murrow Indian Orphanage.
Murrow Indian Orphanage.
Chiricahua Indians--Biography.
Indian children--Social conditions.--Oklahoma
Chiricahua (Indiens)--Biographies.
Enfants indiens d'Amérique--Conditions sociales.--Oklahoma
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Chiricahua Indians.
Indian children--Social conditions.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Oklahoma.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
E99.C68 / S53 1997eb
976.6/004972
U5001 T605 -1997