North American Indian Prose Award Series
215 pages
Illus., maps
Lomawaima allows the Chilocco students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together—the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones.
1995 Critics' Choice Award, sponsored by the American Educational Studies Association, winner
1995 Oklahoma Book Award, sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book, non-fiction finalist