February meeting

Next Meeting
February 27, 2010

Meet us at the Museum of the Great Plains parking lot at 1:45  before driving over to the Comanche Nation College for our meeting and program.


Our guest speaker, Juanita Pahdopony, Comanche artist and educator, will meet us at CNC to show us the murals and the exhibition, "Indian Education in Southwest Oklahoma: Yesterday and Today," a photographic exhibit featuring compare and contrast images from the historic Fort Sill Indian Boarding School and today's Comanche Nation College.

About the exhibit
Photographs depicting life at the two educational institutions reveal widely contrasting treatments of native American culture. Students at the historic Fort Sill Indian Boarding School were expected to abandon their native culture and to assimilate fully into white culture. They received instruction in speaking, reading and writing English as well as vocational training in farming, blacksmithing, domestic duties such as sewing and laundry, and more. Students who today attend Comanche Nation College study the Comanche language through language immersion, and all classes have some integration of culture and language.

“Indian Education in Southwest Oklahoma: Yesterday and Today” is funded through a grant by the Oklahoma Humanities Council.

Museum of the Great Plains
601 NW Ferris Avenue
Lawton, Oklahoma