Tag: education

Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary

Courtesy of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

The diary of a Korean international student who attended Vanderbilt University and Emory College in the late nineteenth century.

Creator: Yun Ch’i-ho

Date of Creation: 1883 to 1945

Place of origin: Entries written in a variety of locations, including Nashville, TN and Oxford, GA

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Handwritten

Current location: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

Further Reading

Mark Caprio, “Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator? The Yun Ch’iho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7, no. 3 (2006): n.p.  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/209552

Chris Suh, “What Yun Ch’i-ho Knew: U.S.-Japan Relations and Imperial Race Making in Korea and the American South, 1904–1919,” Journal of American History 104, no. 1 (June 2017): 68–96. https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/104/1/68/3860656

Andrew Urban, “Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the ‘New’ South, 1888–1893,” Journal of Asian American Studies 17, no. 3 (October 2014), 305–36. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/556380

Information contributed by Chris Suh.

Chauncey Yellow Robe’s “Record of Graduates and Returned Students”

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

An early twentieth-century response to a survey of recent graduates of a Native American boarding school.

Creator: Chauncey Yellow Robe

Date of Creation: 1910

Place of origin: Survey created in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; survey filled out in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Physical measurements: 3 pages

Materials: Paper, graphite, and ink.

Process by which it was made: Handwriting on a pre-printed survey form.

Current location: National Archives and Records Administration

Further Reading

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations, edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose, 43-53. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dwssxz.7. 

Pexa, Christopher J. Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Warrior, Robert. The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.Yellow Robe, Chauncey. “The Autobiography of An Indian Boy.” How the Silent Enemy Was Made. Cline Printing Co., 1930: 4, 17.

Information contributed by Rachel Linea Brown.