Interview · South Dakota · Pearl Kennedy-Colombe · OSEU 7
Themes: Education & learning, Values & generosity, Racism & representation, Listening & observation
Learn About questions
Pearl refers to many different schools
she attended as she grew up. Where are
the following schools and what kind of
schools are they? Steffan? St. Joseph’s
Indian School? Chamberlain Public
School? Flandreau Indian School?
How did attending a white school help Pearl as she learned?
Why was getting an education important to Pearl?
Learn From questions
How many schools have you attended?
Where and when? How were the
schools you attended similar? Different?
Are there things that you learned in certain schools or at certain levels that you felt were extra important?
What was your experience of school like in general? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not?
Have you ever attended a school that wasn’t public? What was it like?
Transcripts
Getting an Education - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #7
Watch this interview on YouTubeWell, when I started school, they put me up at Stephane. So I attended school there till I was a freshman. One year, I went to St. Joe's and I graduated from their eighth grade. And they make a big deal about that eighth grade graduation. You know, you really felt like you accomplished something. And then after that, I went to Flandreau. I went one year to Chamberlain and I talked about racism, you know, like that. I never felt it. But one girl told me one thing that my parents told me not to go hang around, you know, the Indian.
But she said, they're not here. They're not with us in school. So she would talk to me. So, but I learned in school just like, I mean, they were in school learning just like the other schools that I've been, you know, everybody was learning something. But I learned how to talk to people by being in a white school, because they would make us get up in the front and, you know, talk. And so I kind of got ahead on the, I kind of got ahead by doing that, learning how to get up and talk in front of people.
And then I went to Flandreau and I finished my graduate. My dad always told me to get an education, you know, learn.
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OSEU #7
Well, when I started school, they put me up at Stephane. So I attended school there till I
was a freshman. One year, I went to St. Joe's and I graduated from their eighth grade.
And they make a big deal about that eighth grade graduation. You know, you really felt
like you accomplished something. And then after that, I went to Flandreau. I went one
year to Chamberlain and I talked about racism, you know, like that. I never felt it. But
one girl told me one thing that my parents told me not to go hang around, you know, the
Indian.
But she said, they're not here. They're not with us in school. So she would talk to me.
So, but I learned in school just like, I mean, they were in school learning just like the
other schools that I've been, you know, everybody was learning something. But I
learned how to talk to people by being in a white school, because they would make us
get up in the front and, you know, talk. And so I kind of got ahead on the, I kind of got
ahead by doing that, learning how to get up and talk in front of people.
And then I went to Flandreau and I finished my graduate. My dad always told me to get
an education, you know, learn.