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Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories, 0803215096, 0-8032-1509-6, 978-0-8032-1509-2, 9780803215092, Amanda J. Cobb, North American Indian Prose Award, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories, 0803264674, 0-8032-6467-4, 978-0-8032-6467-0, 9780803264670, Amanda J. Cobb, North American Indian Prose Award, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories, 0803205856, 0-8032-0585-6, 978-0-8032-0585-7, 9780803205857, Amanda J. Cobb, North American Indian Prose Awar
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Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories
hardcover
2000.
180 pp.
Illus., maps
978-0-8032-1509-2
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Out of Stock
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paperback
2007.
208 pp.
Illus., maps
978-0-8032-6467-0
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 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.
"An important contribution to the history of women's education. It is valuable as a concise and moving history of the Chickasaw Nation generally, and in particular as it relates to education."—National Women’s Studies Association Journal "Cobb has written a moving and informative book that opens a window on the experience of young Indian women. Theirs is a story that has not been told until now, and this book serves an important function by telling it."—Anthropology and Education Quarterly "Deserves to be read and critiqued by historians, educators, and Chickasaw tribal members. This book reveals the undercurrents pulling at our sensibilities and our wishes for the future."—History of Education Quarterly
Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award 2001 American Book Awards, sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation, winner
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