Interview · North Dakota · Jerome Dancing Bull
Themes: Language & revitalization, Education & learning, Boarding schools & assimilation, Arts & expression
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Learn About questions
1. How old was Jerome Dancing Bull when he was sent to boarding school?
2. What does he recall about separation from home and restrictions on language?
3. What hopes does he express for the education of the next generation?
Learn From questions
1. How does imagining the needs of a five-year-old change the way I hear this account?
2. What helps a child feel connected to family and language while learning?
3. What responsibility do I have to listen to a difficult history without asking the speaker to disclose more?
Transcripts
05 Jerome Dancing Bull: Education
Watch this interview on YouTubeAll right I hope the these in the next generation coming up stays in school and you know gets graduated I was I was in that generation where I was sent away I’m a boarding school person I had left my while they sent me away from when I was five years old and I never came home for a year and you can look at people that are five years old they’re still babies my grandkids I get ya five years old that’s how old I was until when they sent me away to boarding school he couldn’t talk your language you couldn’t you know I went through that you know I’ve never you know really talked about it but I’m glad they nobody has to go through that no more we did that already for them
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