Monthly Archives: June 2010

Quincy Asks to Go Home for a Visit

Most of the students at Santa Fe Indian School came from the Rio Grande pueblos near Santa Fe, and so  families rode into town on wagons to visit their children on weekends. However, Quincy Tahoma’s adoptive family was far away … Continue reading

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Indian Boarding Schools Changing in 1930s

This post by Vera Marie Perhaps the most controversial part of our book will be our treatment of American Indian boarding schools. While we acknowledge that the boarding schools were disruptive and damaging to American Indian youth when they were … Continue reading

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Quincy Tahoma, the Jock

One day Charnell and I visited the library of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill in Santa Fe.  The Lab has been in existence since 1931 (later merged with the Museum of Indian Arts … Continue reading

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