April 3, 2019
Dear Family, Friends and Everyone else reading this,
I recently changed the name of my blog to: Blog of my Book: Sky Woman Lives in Me. Last month I accidentally deleted myself as manager of my original Facebook Page, Sky Woman Lives in Me. Facebook will not allow me to put myself back on as manager. I don’t know why. So, I had to open a new page, Blog of my Book: Sky Woman Lives in Me. This new blog page will continue as my original except for the name change. So, if you are searching for my blog on Facebook, jus type in Blog of my Book: Sky Woman Lives in Me. I will also be sending this information out to the 700 people who had been following my original blog and to the groups I send this blog to every month.
I also have a new e-mail for this new blog: bobbie@skywomanlivesinme.blog If you have any comments or questions for me, feel free to send me an e-mail.
On the new blog page: Blog of my Book: Sky Woman Lives in Me, click on the link m.me/1fortheturtle. You will also be able to ask me a question or comment at this link. I am also on Twitter for my book blog. Just type in Roberta Capasso@AuthorRCapasso and you should be able to go directly to the Twitter site.
For WordPress I also have my blog for anyone to read. Here is the email address https://blogofmybook:skywomanlives in me.wordpress.com
Even though my book, Sky Woman Lives in Me was self-published on February 8, 2016, I have learned that many, ‘many’ people are clueless about the government’s assimilation experiment that forced thousands of indigenous children into boarding schools at the turn of the century. Below is a photo of my Great-Grandmother, Sophia Huff-Powless and her sister (my Great Aunt) Lily Huff. These two young girls were forced to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School in July of 1891. Why? Because the government wanted to assimilate Sophia and Lily into the Euro-white culture. The government wanted to save these two girls from their savagery. Plus, it was cheaper to try to assimilate indigenous people than to pay for the calvery to kill them. This was terrible to force these two girls away from their parents, siblings, friends and home.
My book will never be a famous book. It will never be on the New York Times Bestseller book list. It was self-published through my husband’s help. But, my goal for the rest of my life is to continue to share my grandmothers’ story and mine. This is why I wrote my book. In my next life I will pay better attention in English class so I get an A instead of a B. No matter my writing skill, I was going to share their story because they are dead. The more indigenous people share their boarding school stories as well as reservation and life stories, the better for sharing true history to the general public.
Today, there are thousands of immigrants trying to come to this country for a better life. Sadly, in El Paso, Texas, manh families are sleeping outdoors, under an overpass on the ground. They are kept in a chain link fence like animals. They are freezing at night because they are outside, in the elements! The photo below of the little boy sleeping outside, breaks my heart. Here is another photo of El Paso’s outdoor immigrants. This is so much like how indigenous people were treated by being put onto reservations in this country. Things haven’t change, just the dates! Below is another photo of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It is experiencing the worst flooding. Another photo shows the Oneida Indian Reservation, Salt Pork Avenue, where Sophia lived with her mother, Aliskwat (Elizabeth) when she left Carlisle in 1902. Thank you for reading this blog. Share if you wish. Sincerely, Bobbie (Roberta Capasso, Author of Sky Woman Lives in Me), and a very proud member of the Oneidas of Wisconsin.
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