Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education

by Diane Glancy

At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as "trouble causers," arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see the Indian warriors they knew only from imagination. Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803249675
• ISBN13: 9780803249677
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"