February 5, 2020
Dear Family, Friends and Everyone Else who may be reading this blog,
Hello! I hope this finds all well and enjoying a healthy, happy 2020. I am blogging about my book, Sky Woman Lives in Me. I started writing this book around the year 2000. It took me fifteen years to research and write. It was self-published at Lulu Publishing, through the help of my husband, on February 8, 2016. I do not believe it would ever be published by a big, well known publisher, because of it’s content matter. So, why am I blogging about this book? Many people have no clue about the United States experiment of opening boarding schools in this country, to assimilate indigenous children into the Euro-white culture. I didn’t even know this and I am 1/2 Oneida. My Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff and her sister, Lily were considered less than human and needed to be assimilated to make them better citizens and save them from their Indian savageness. Here is a photo of these two ladies, Sophia fourteen and one-half years old, stands on the left. Lily, sixteen, is sitting on the right. I found this photo through the help of Barb Landis, researcher of the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School and historian at the Cumberland County Historial Society. This photo was taken in July, 1891. Sophia and Lily are posing in their Carlisle School uniforms. Their Oneida clothes were removed and burned. The Carlisle Indian Industrial Boading School was the United States first Indian Boarding School. It opened in 1879 on a former Army Barracks.
The photo above was taken in March, 1892. Sophia is in the headshot on lower left. She also is shown where she is posing in the group photo.
Please feel free to contact me with any comments or questions you may have at this E-mail: bobbie@skywomanlivesinme.blog I am also posting my blog on Twitter. You can reach this site at https://skywomanlivesinme.blog Thank you for reading my blogs. Sincerely, Roberta (Bobbie) Capasso
Sky Woman Lives in Me 