Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse The World of an Indian Orphanage

Name: Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse The World of an Indian Orphanage
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ISBN: 9780803292888

ISBN-10: 0803292880

ISBN-13: 9780803292888

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sharon Skolnick, Manny Skolnick

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The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage in this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled back and forth between foster homes and orphanages, they finally ended up at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and ultimately triumphal account of the year the sisters spent there. nbsp; Murrow was a place of wonder and terror, friendship and loneliness, where…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction


Photo Album


The Bacone Clothes Line


Our Very Little "Big Planet"


In a Field of Horses


Sitting the Straight and Narrow


A Dialogue in Tears and Laughter


Willing Co-Conspirators


In the Dead Zone


Soreface Lakoe


A Dilemma in Black and White


Through a Veil of Tears


The "Family" Portrait


The Wolf Pack Closes In


To Sleep, Perchance to Dream


The Horns of a Dilemma


Guardian Angel with Candelabra


We Talk of Sundry Things


The Hounds of Bacone



Meet the Master


When Only an Apache Will Do


It's Blowing in the Wind


A Lecture Overheard


They Don't Even Leave Us Our Hair


Ice Cream Out of Season



Even the Score


Presents at Parting


A Problem Solved, a New Life Begun


Afterword