Dear Family and Friends and all reading this blog, Hello! I hope everyone is safe and socially distancing during this pandemic and climate change that is circling our world today. I am currently working on upgrading this website: Sky Woman Lives in Me. the photo below is what the cover of my book looks like with me, standing next to it, at Indian Summer Festival at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September, 2017. This photo was taken by Dustin Thomas. Thank you Dustin!
I will continue to blog about my Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff and her sister, Lily. Both of these ladies were forced to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School in July, 1891. The government wanted these girls to learn English, become Christianized and lose their savage ways!
Below is a picture of the cover of a book, my Facebook friend, Lisa Gammon Olson wrote. Like my Great Grandmother and Great Aunt, Lisa shares the story of an Ojibwe girl from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin named Wenonah. Wenonah is forced to attend a boarding school in Wisconsin to be assimilated into the Euro-white culture like Sophia and Lily. In this story she talks with her grandfather about this boarding school she attends. This book is available today. Lisa Gammon Olson wrote a very true, historical story that is available for reading by grade school students and everyone else! I have to add that the beautiful illustrations were done by Lauren Rutledge.
Below is another picture of my Great Grandmother Sophia and her sister Lily posing in their Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School uniforms (European Dress) in July, 1891 when they first arrived at the school. Sophia, 14, is standing on the left. Lily, 16 years old, sitting on the right. The girls are dressed in heavy wool dresses in the summer of July, 1891! On November 3rd, 2020, I am proudly voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Thank you for reading this blog. Please share if you wish! Sincerely, Roberta Capasso, Author, Sky Woman Lives in Me.
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