Chauncey Yellow Robe: A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930

by David W. Messer

In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he found Carlisle Indian School, with its well-documented horrors, was the end of the world as he knew it.

Renamed Chauncey Yellow Robe, he flourished at Carlisle, developed a lifelong friendship with founder Richard Pratt, and went on to work at Indian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476673225
• ISBN13: 9781476673226
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher