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The Hen of Wahpeton
Author
Ann Nolan Clark
(United States, 1896 - 1995)
Illustrator
Andrew Standing Soldier
(United States, Oglala Lakota (Sioux), 1917 - 1967)
Publisher
United States Indian Bureau
(United States)
Dateca. 1943
MediumBound book
DimensionsH x W x D: 7 x 10 1/2 x 1/2 in. (177.8 x 266.7 x 12.7 mm)
Object TypeBooks
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Object numberCM243.2019
On View
Not on view• During the 1930s the US government hired Standing Soldier to illustrate a series of primers in English and Lakota (Sioux) for use on reservations and in non-Native schools.
• The appearance of these volumes coincided with a reversal of government policies prohibiting the use of Native languages in federal schools.
• Author Ann Clark was an educator in New Mexican Indian schools who had noticed that her Diné (Navajo) students benefited from primers that were more connected with Native stories and experiences.
• Some of Clark’s tales for Lakota children, such as these examples, were published by the Haskell Foundation and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
• The biography of the books’ Lakota translator, Emil Afraid-of-Hawk, is unknown
• The appearance of these volumes coincided with a reversal of government policies prohibiting the use of Native languages in federal schools.
• Author Ann Clark was an educator in New Mexican Indian schools who had noticed that her Diné (Navajo) students benefited from primers that were more connected with Native stories and experiences.
• Some of Clark’s tales for Lakota children, such as these examples, were published by the Haskell Foundation and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
• The biography of the books’ Lakota translator, Emil Afraid-of-Hawk, is unknown
