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Wednesday, August 19, 1992
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence junior college provides education for Native Americans
School provides modern traditional value system
By James Baucom Special to the Kansan
Lawrence is home to one of the oldest Native-American institutions of higher education in the country.
Haskell Indian Junior College is at the corner of 23rd and Learnard streets.
In 1884, the federal government opened the United States Indian Industrial School with 22 Native-American students. The school grew to more than 400 students in one semester.
In 1890 the school's official name was changed to Haskell Institute in honor of Dudley C. Haskell, the congressman who helped establish the school. During the 1900s the school was an elementary school, teachers' college and a post-secondary vocational school before becoming an accredited junior college.
Today, almost 900 students from 139 tribes and 39 states attend Haskell. Bob Martin, Haskell president , said Haskell's multicultural student population was one of its greatest strengths.
Martin said schools such as Haskell were established to teach Native Americans the English language and other skills to survive in the dominant American society.
"Schools such as Haskell assisted in mainstreaming Native-American culture," Martin said.
In the early days Native Americans were prohibited from using their native languages at Haskell. Martin said the tactic was ineffective because the students continued to speak their own languages in private. Today, Haskell seeks to integrate Native-American culture, values, symbols and traditions into all of its programs and curriculum.
Martin said he hoped Haskell could provide American society with a Native-American perspective in addition to promoting this culture within the college.
"We see it as a part of our responsibility to
educate the dominant society to the contributions of Native Americans to American culture," Martin said. "A good example would be Haskell's involvement in sharing a Native American perspective to the bicentenial celebration of Columbus' so-called discovery of America."
Jason Buffalohead, a second-year liberal art student from Ponca City, Okla., praised the college for helping him cultivate his artistic talents and get admitted to an art institute in Santa Fe. N. M.
"The placement office helps you a lot here." Buffalohead said.
Buffaloadhead said that because both his parents attended Haskell it was almost second nature for him to decide to attend.
Haskell competes with other Kansas junior colleges in athletic and educational events. Haskell also has more than 25 active student organizations that participate in campus and Lawrence community activities. Perhaps the best-known cultural events put on by Haskell are its biannual powwows.
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According to the Douglas County Historical Society, Hiram Townes, a survivor, recalled, "Almost everybody was abed, and they were all
The raid was a complete surprise. Quantrill had been seen several times on his way to Lawrence, but no word of his coming had reached the town.
Source: Office of Student Organizations and Activities
While the raiders burned and looted the town, Quantrill stood back and watched. He commandeered a team
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over the city in 10 minutes and shot down everyone that showed his head, so they had no chance to get together to defend the town. I could see them riding into town as fast as their horses could run and yelling like savages."
Sean M. Tevis/ KANSAN
The raiders paused before entering the center of town and were given orders by Quantrill to spare the women and children.
one of Black soldiers.
Near the present intersection of 11th and Massachusetts streets, two groups of Union recruits were camped, one of white soldiers and
and buggy and patrolled the streets.
He then rode to the top of Mount
Oread for a better view of the
destruction.
The raiders attacked the white recruits first and quickly killed 17 of the 22 recruits camped there. The attack on the white recruits alerted the Black recruits, and most of them escaped. They could not, however, return fire because an order of Mayor George Collamore and Sheriff Sun Brown required all firearms to be
The raid lasted for four hours, and the destruction was nearly complete. More than 150 men were dead or missing.
According to a report from the St Louis Daily Democrat, there were
"We found Massachusetts Street one mass of smoiling ruins and crumbling walls, the light from which cast a sickening glare upon the little knots of excited men and distracted women," the paper reported.
73 buildings burned on Massachusetts Street.
Quantrill was killed in a raid in Kentucky in 1865.
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