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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Blaine, Martha Royce, 1923- Some things are not forgotten. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605039269 Online version: Blaine, Martha Royce, 1923- Some things are not forgotten. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997 (OCoLC)608490698 |
| Named Person: | Garland James Blaine; Martha Royce Blaine; Garland James Blaine; Martha Royce Blaine |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha Royce Blaine |
| ISBN: | 0803212755 9780803212756 0803242638 9780803242630 |
| OCLC Number: | 36307872 |
| Description: | xviii, 274 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | They came before -- The early years in Indian Territory -- Allotment comes -- The Spirits come -- "They Were All around Us" -- Becoming Pawnee -- Childhood in Pawnee -- The old and the new -- The truths -- Blaine genealogy chart -- Pawnee Indian guardianship record. |
| Responsibility: | Martha Royce Blaine. |
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Abstract:
The Blaine family were among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874-75. By the early twentieth century, disease and starvation had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the reservation's population. Government boarding schools refused to teach Pawnee customs and language, and many Pawnees found themselves without a community when their promised land was allotted to individuals and the rest sold as "surplus" to white settlers. Where did the Blaine family find the resilience to cope with the continual assault on their dignity and way of life? In Some Things Are Not Forgotten, Martha Royce Blaine reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled them to persevere during the reservation years.
Many memorable figures emerge: Wichita and Effie Blaine, anguished over the deaths of two young sons and driven to embrace the Ghost Dance; John Box, whose persistent attempts to farm the white man's way are shattered in one disastrous moment by a tornado; James G. Blaine, an aspiring ballplayer whose mysterious death in jail ends his bid to join the Chicago White Sox. We also meet the young, educated James Murie, striding a conflict-ridden path between the Pawnee and white worlds. Perhaps most unforgettable are the childhood memories of Garland Blaine, the late husband of the author, who became head chief of the Pawnees in 1964.
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