Blog of my Book: Sky Woman Lives in Me

May 6, 2019

Dear Family,Friends and Everyone else reading this,

Hello! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Spring. It has been over a month since I last blogged about my book,Sky Woman Lives in Me.
Though my book came out on February 8, 2016, things in this country haven’t changed much. It’s just a different date.
Below is a photo of the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School Farm House. I have talked about this in my other blogs. The original Farm House still stands on the Carlisle Indian School Grounds. This school Farm House was an integral role in the education of Carlisle’s Indian Students. It provided experience in farming to the students. Today there is a goal by Carlisle School Farm House Coalition of descendants and advocates, to fix up this Farmhouse. The goal is to reuse this Farmhouse as a safe place to meet up for descendants and visitors to Carlisle. It is hoped this Farmhouse will provide healing and the opportunity to share stories and honor former Carlisle Indian School Students. I have visited Carlisle three times. My Great-Grandmother, Sophia Huff, was forced to attend the Indian School in 1891, to become assimilated white. The government considered Sophia a savage because of her being Oneida! Thus, Sophia needed to be saved from her indigenous self! The only place to meet up today, is the cemetery. Few people in this country know about the true history and legacy of the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School. Even fewer people know about the broader, true legacy of Indian boarding schools here in the United States. It is a goal of the Coalition to educate and raise awareness of the true history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School and the other Indian Boarding Schools that sprouted up after Carlisle in 1879. The website for further information is https://www.gofundme.com/carlisle-indian-school-farmhouse Also you can go to https://www.sitesofconscience.org/

I am thrilled that there are cities and states in this country that are changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. It’s about time! Columbus was a murderer! In history class in school, I was taught he was the discoverer of America. The real history of Columbus is just starting to come out. I show a poster of Columbus below.

It breaks my heart to see what is happening to the immigrants trying to come to this country. It is terrible children are being separated from their parents, given numbers for identity! This reminds me of my Great Grandmother being given a number at Carlisle Indian School to identify her. She was # 2646. Below is a photo of a Jewish boy with his number inscribed on his arm in 1938 in a Nazi Concentration Camp. The picture to his right is a photo taken recently of a little Mexican boy at a Detention Center here in our country! He has the #47 on his shirt. None of this is right. It is 2019 and people of different nationalities are still given numbers and treated inhuman!

I probably sound like a broken record mentioning topics I have already blogged about. Well, it is my sincere hope that Leonard Peltier is freed from prison. He has served over 40 years in prison. I pray someone with a conscience and morals, frees Leonard!

Since Mother’s Day is a few days away, Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. The last two photos are of me with my grandsons. I had to become a mom first to become a grandma today. I am crawling on the floor with Luke, knee pads on and all; Clyde is helping me with my gymnastics by sitting on my knees! I thank Our Creator, God, that I am now a grandma! Thank you for reading this blog. Feel free to share if you wish.

Sincerely, Roberta (Bobbie) Capasso, Author: Sky Woman Lives in Me