"Listening to Our Grandmother's Stories": Bloomfield Academy

Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

Amanda Cobb-Greetham discusses how the Chickasaws established schools a full 25 years before the federal government created schools for relocated Native Americans. One of the institutions was Bloomfield Academy, a boarding school for girls founded in 1852.

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"Listening to Our Grandmother's Stories": Boarding Schools

Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
Amanda Cobb-Greetham talks about how Bloomfield Academy was originally founded as a school for girls in 1852.

Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Assimilation

Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham describes the U.S. government's plan to, in essence, re-program American Indian children.

Grandpa and Boarding School

Lisa Billy
Like most Indian children, Lisa Billy's Chickasaw grandfather was sent to boarding school.

Losing a Native Language

Dottie Lyda
Dottie Lyda tells a story of being sent to a boarding school where speaking the native language and taking part in cultural traditions was prohibited.

Te Ata's Roots in Boarding School

Lona Barrick
Lona Barrick recounts the early childhood of Te Ata, who attended Bloomfield Academy with her sisters in the early 1900s.