David W Messer: 2 books

Book cover of Henry Roe Cloud

Henry Roe Cloud

A Biography

by David W. Messer
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs and practices, the white man's educational system, reform theology, progressive education and progressive...
Book cover of Chauncey Yellow Robe

Chauncey Yellow Robe

A Biography of the American Indian Educator, ca. 1870-1930

by David W. Messer
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018

In 1883, 12-year old Canowicakte boarded a train on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, beginning a journey his friends said would end at the edge of the world. Raised as a traditional Lakota, he found Carlisle Indian School, with its well-documented horrors, was the end of the world as he knew it. Renamed...
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