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The boy who promised me horses / David Joseph Charpentier ; foreword by He'seota'e Miner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charpentier, David Joseph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charpentier, David Joseph.
- Prairie Chief, Maurice.
- High school teachers--Montana--Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation--Biography.
- High school teachers.
- Indian high school students--Montana--Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation--Biography.
- Indian high school students.
- Teacher-student relationships--Montana--Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation--Biography.
- Cheyenne Indians.
- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.)--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2024.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his more memorable students, Maurice Prairie Chief.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword: Through the Looking Glass
- Acknowledgments
- 1. As Brief as His Life
- 2. What I Knew
- 3. Cool, Indian Kids!
- 4. Teacher Dave from Minnesota
- 5. Fishing at Sitting Man Dam
- 6. Needed: High School English Teacher
- 7. Sleep, without Restless Dreams
- 8. I’ve Never Been Good at Algebra
- 9. Chimney Rock
- 10. Labor Day Powwow
- 11. Eagleman and Hawkman
- 12. Peyote Meeting at the Medicine Bulls’
- 13. The Search for Fisher’s Butte
- 14. New Possibilities That Felt like Gifts
- 15. Sweat Hobo
- 16. Stag Rock and Birthdays at the Runs Aboves’
- 17. Get Studly to Run
- 18. It Makes Me Think of Uncle Doug
- 19. The Huckleberry Party and Others
- 20. The Balance of This Day
- 21. Pissing the Day Away
- 22. Hawkman Tries to Say Goodbye to Eagleman
- 23. What Elaine Littlebird Said Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496239495
- 1496239490
- 9781496239488
- 1496239482
- 1-4962-3949-0
- 1-4962-3948-2
- OCLC:
- 1428261385
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