Some Things Are Not Forgotten by Martha Royce Blaine PAPERBACK 9780803245273

Some Things Are not ForgottenA Pawnee Family Remembers\nAuthor(s): Martha Royce Blaine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803245273, 978-0803245273\nSynopsis\nThe Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in [tel]. By the early twentieth century, disease and starvation had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the reservation's population. Government boarding schools refused to teach Pawnee customs and language, and many Pawnees found themselves without a community when their promised land was allotted to individuals and the rest sold as \""surplus\"" to white settlers. Where did the Blaine family find the resilience to cope with the continual assault on their dignity and way of life? In Some Things Are Not Forgotten, Martha Royce Blaine reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled them to persevere during the reservation years. Many memorable figures .