[Indigenous History – Oklahoma] Rhoads, Charles J. (Ed.)

The Oklahoma Indian School Magazine. [Four Issues]

Oklahoma: Government Boarding Schools in Oklahoma, 1932–1933. Four issues: Vol. I, no. 3 (May 1932), Vol. I, no. 7 (December 1932), Vol. II, no. 2 (February 1933), and Vol. II, no. 3 (March 1933). Generally very good to excellent; see description for specific condition information. Item #List3879

Four issues of the Oklahoma Indian School Magazine, three of which are special issues focusing on schools of particular tribes: Kiowa (Dec. 1932), Cheyenne-Arapaho (Feb. 1933), and Seneca (Mar. 1933). May 1932 is not a special issue, but does focus mainly on the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School. It is also the only edition here to indicate each student’s blood quantum. Contents are generally brief histories, rosters, accomplishments of various student groups, and short pieces of writing by the students, including poems, legends and histories, and discussions of school activities.

The March 1933 Seneca issue contains a handwritten note from a student in Wyandotte, Wesley Valliere, to his mother, inviting her to the “May-day Demonstration-Day Program!!”: “Be sure to bring your lunch so we can eat in the park together. I will have some schoolwork to show you and I am in the program. Please come, I think my teacher would surely have you come.”

Conditions as follows:

• Vol. I, no. 3: 7 x 10 ¾ inches, paper wraps. Wraps worn with stains and some wrinkling, unrelated manuscript pencil on back cover, very good minus. Contents excellent to Near Fine.
• Vol. I, no. 7: 7 x 10 ¾ inches, paper wraps. Magazine previously folded in half. Wraps worn with some stains and unrelated manuscript pencil markings, very good plus. Contents excellent.
• Vol. II, no. 2: 7 x 10 ¾ inches, paper wraps. Wraps with light wear and some unrelated manuscript pencil markings, excellent. Contents NF.
• Vol. II, no. 3: 7 x 10 ¾ inches, paper wraps. Wraps worn with some staining, manuscript note on inside cover, very good. Contents tone and somewhat wrinkled with some pages detached, very good minus.

Of interest to historians of residential schools in Oklahoma.

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Price: $800.00