Chilocco Indian Agricultural School - Chiloccoan Yearbook (Chilocco, OK)

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Mrs. Dcnaiene Bunch demonstrates how to make a pump- kin pie to Freshmen Louann Big Goose. Marvina Cerre, Ronnie Buffalohead, Ronald Bercier and Norita Motlow. Everyone tries a hand at mixing the pie dough. From left to right, Ronald Bercier, Dawn Standsblack, Louann Big Goose and Norita Motlow. Leslie McComber prepares a tray of pumpkin seeds for roasting as part of his project in the fall. Leslie is a stu- dent in the Title I project. Ronald Bercier measures the flour while Norita Motlow measures the ingredients with measuring spoons for Mrs. Bunch as Louann Big Goose, Ronnie Buffalohead (behind pole), and Marvina Cerre watch. 29

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‘The sun has been very hot on my head and made me as in a fire; my blood was on fire, but now I have come into this valley and drunk of these waters and washed myself in them and they have cooled me. Now that I am cool I have come with my hands open to you to live in peace with you. 1 speak straight and do not wish to deceive or be deceived. I want a good, strong and lasting peace. When God made the world he gave one part to the white man and another to the Apache. Why was it? Why did they come together? Now that 1 am to speak, the sun. the moon, the earth, the air, the waters, the birds and beasts, even the children unborn shall rejoice at my words. The white people have looked for me long. 1 am here! What do they want? They have looked for me long; why am I worth so much? If I am worth so much w'hy not mark where I set my foot and look when I spit? The coyotes go about at night to rob and kill; I cannot see them; I am not God. I am no longer chief of all the Apaches. I am no longer rich; 1 am but a poor man. The world was not always this way. God made us not like you; we were born like the animals, go about at night and rob and steai. If I had such as you have I would not do as I do, for then I would not do so. My warriors have been killed in Sonora. I came in here because God told me to do so. He said it was to be at peace with all. He said the world was for us all; how was it? “Wrhen I was young I wraiked all over this country, east and west, and saw no other people than the Apaches. After many summers I walked again and found an- other race of people had come to take it. How is it? Why is it that the Apaches wait to die—that they carry their lives on their fingernails? They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. The Apaches were once a great nation; they are now but few. and because of this they want to die and so carry tbeir lives on their fingernails. Many have been killed in battle. You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts. Tell me. if the Virgin Mary has walked throughout the land, why has she never entered the wicki- ups of the Apaches? Why have we never seen or heard her? “I have no father nor mother; I am alone in the world. No one cares for Co- chise; that is why I do not care to live, and wish the rocks to fall on me and cover me up. If I had a father and mother like you, I would be with them and they with me. When I was going around the world, all were asking for Cochise. Now he is here—you see him and hear him—are you glad? If so say so. Speak, Americans and Mexicans, I do not wish to hide anything from you nor have you hide any- thing from me. I will not lie to you; do not lie to me. I want to live in these moun- tains, I do not want to go to Tularosa. That is a long ways off. The flies on those mountains eat out the eyes of the horses. The bad spirits live there. I have drunk of these waters and they have cooled me; I do not want to leave here.” —Cochise— (From BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown)

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Rose Villa and Joe Vasquez enjoy a Coke break before tackling their assignment in the Reading room. The reading room is cor- rectional and developmental and is a totally individualized pro- gram. Diane Medicine Horse works on her assignments in Reading. Since the program is highly individ- ualized it is rare to find two students doing the same assignment, once the group activities are completed. Richard Williams and Mrs. Sue Pappan, Reading aide, count their score in a vocabulary building game. Mrs. Beverly Sandstrum, Reading teacher, checks a lesson schedule while Samuel Lewis studies his lesson prescription in the back- ground. 30