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Category Archives: Santa Fe Indian School
For Veteran’s Day, Insights into Code Talking
Very few people today have not heard of Navajo Code Talkers. It may even be taken for granted that codetalkers are among the veterans who ring the Stock Market opening bell on this Veteran’s Day, 2010.
Connecting with Fans of American Indian Art
We now have a Twitter account, @QuincyTahoma, and invite you to join us if you’re on Twitter. Oh the wonderful connections just waiting out there in Internet land! Here’s a nice little story. A few posts ago we told you … Continue reading
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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Tagged Dorothy Dunn, Quincy Tahoma, Santa Fe Indian School, SFIS, Tuba City
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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
National Archives–Answers and More Questions
In January 2005 we E-mailed the National Archives Western Regional Office in Denver and learned that they had some incomplete school records from Santa Fe Indian School. We were disappointed to learn that they had none from Albuquerque or from … Continue reading
What Was Quincy Tahoma’s Clan?
Was it possible that Quincy Tahoma actually did not know his clan as he said? He told people that he had no parents, and that information was in the school records that we found at the National Archives Western office … Continue reading
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Tagged clan, David Brugge, Mark Rosacker, National Archives, Navajo, Santa Fe Indian School
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