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Blue Star : the story of Corabelle Fellows, teacher at Dakota Missions, 1884-1888 / Kunigunde Duncan ; with a new introduction by Bruce David Forbes.
- Title
- Blue Star : the story of Corabelle Fellows, teacher at Dakota Missions, 1884-1888 / Kunigunde Duncan ; with a new introduction by Bruce David Forbes.
- Author
- Duncan, Kunigunde, 1886-1971
- Publication
- St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E97.65.S8 F453 1990 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Forbes, Bruce David
- Description
- xxxiv, 216 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, music; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In 1884, young Corabelle Fellows, well-educated and gently bred, overcame her parents' objections and left her upper-class home in Washington D.C. to become a church-sponsored teacher among the Indian people of Dakota Territory. For the next several years, she taught English, art, and domestic science on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Cheyenne River reservations. In return for her friendship, the students affectionately gave her the name Blue Star. A keen observer, especially of Indian women's and children's lives, she learned much about their family traditions. Her teaching career ended in 1888 when she married Samuel Campbell, a Dakota mixed-blood. Fifty years later, Corabelle recalled her experiences in Dakota land for Kunigunde Duncan, who turned them into this book, first published in 1938.
- Series Statement
- Borealis
- Subject
- Fellows, Corabelle
- Dakota Indians > Education
- Teachers > South Dakota > Biography
- Dakota Indians > Missions
- Dakota Indians > Social life and customs
- Dakota Indians > Missions
- Dakota Indians > Social life and customs
- Dakota > Éducation
- Enseignants > Dakota du Sud > Biographies
- Dakota > Mœurs et coutumes
- Dakota Indians > Education
- Teachers
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
- Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.)
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Dak. du S.)
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (Dak. du S.)
- South Dakota
- South Dakota > Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
- South Dakota > Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- South Dakota > Rosebud Indian Reservation
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Originally published: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1938.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780873512459
- 0873512456
- LCCN
- 89039848
- OCLC
- 20355482
- SCSB-11862485
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library