I was surprised this week to hear about the history of Haskell University. I had heard "rumors" about it but was unaware of how it began and the harsh reality of the students there. I had not realized that it was a boarding school for such a long period of time and was not prepared for the stories I heard about children who tried to escape. In my previous studies of history I have rarely run across stories from this area that were so widely known like the story of the school and the athletes who were trained there.
I also wanted to comment on a portion of the article I presented this week "Schooling the Hopi". It was absolutely amazing to me the different comments made by several agents who scouted out the Hopi people to see if they would be receptive to a school in the area. All of the agents went there with the same objective yet several reported of a civilized people who were intelligent, settled and peaceful, while others criticized everything they had seen in the villages. They said the people were dumb and especially focused on the "immorality" of the Hopi people. Leo Crane commented several times on the impropriety of dress between males and females even as children which makes me curious as to what he dressed his little kids in and why it mattered what the Hopi children were wearing.