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.