Name: The Boy Who Promised Me Horses - Paperback
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ISBN: 9781496238078

The Boy Who Promised Me Horses - Paperback

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by David Joseph Charpentier (Author), He'seota'e Miner (Foreword by)

Finalist for the 2025 High Plains Book Award
Longlisted for the Reading the West Award

"He tried to outrun a train," Theodore Blindwoman told David Joseph Charpentier the night they found out about Maurice Prairie Chief's death. When Charpentier was a new teacher at St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana, Prairie Chief was the first student he met and the one with whom he formed the closest bonds.

From the shock of moving from a bucolic Minnesota college to teach at a small, remote reservation school in eastern Montana, Charpentier details the complex and emotional challenges of Indigenous education in the United States. Although he intended his teaching tenure at St. Labre to be short, Charpentier's involvement with the school has extended past thirty years. Unlike many white teachers who came and left the reservation, Charpentier has remained committed to the potentialities of Indigenous education, motivated by the early friendship he formed with Prairie Chief, who taught him lessons far and wide, from dealing with buffalo while riding a horse to coping with student dropouts he would never see again.

Told through episodic experiences, the story takes a journey back in time as Charpentier searches for answers to Prairie Chief's life. As he sits on top of the sledding hill near the cemetery where Prairie Chief is buried, Charpentier finds solace in the memories of their shared (mis)adventures and their mutual respect, hard won through the challenges of educational and cultural mistrust.

Author Biography

David Joseph Charpentier is the director of St. Labre Indian School's Alumni Support Program and executive director of the Bridge Foundation. For more information about the author, visit davidjcharpentier.com.

Number of Pages: 324

Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN

Publication Date: May 01, 2024

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