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"He tried to outrun a train," Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief's death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, Prairie Chief was the first student he met and the one with whom he formed the closest bonds.
From the shock of moving from a bucolic Minnesota college to teach at a small, remote reservation school in eastern Montana, Charpentier details the complex and emotional challenges of Indigenous education in the United States. Although he intended his teaching tenure at St. Labre to be short, Charpentier's involvement with the school has extended past thirty years. Unlike many white teachers who came and left the reservation, Charpentier has remained committed to the potentialities of Indigenous education, motivated by the early friendship he formed with Prairie Chief, who taught him lessons far and wide, from dealing with buffalo while riding a horse to coping with student dropouts he would never see again.
Told through episodic experiences, the story takes a journey back in time as Charpentier searches for answers to Prairie Chief's life. As he sits on top of the sledding hill near the cemetery where Prairie Chief is buried, Charpentier finds solace in the memories of their shared (mis)adventures and their mutual respect, hard won through the challenges of educational and cultural mistrust.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by He'seota'e Miner
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 Bull's
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 Above's
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
24. Time and Distance
25. You Don't Wanna Help Me, Then, Do You?
26. Shooting Star
27. I Should Have Known More
28. Swallowed by the Darkness
29. He Knows How to Ride
30. I Wanted Him to Stay
31. All the Words I Was Forming, I Held Onto
32. Wrong about Buffalo One More Time
