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The fictional diary of a Sioux boy’s experience at the turn of the 19th century
The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle by Gay Matthaei (author), Jewel Grutman (author) and Adam Cvijanovic (illustrator) Charlesbridge 1994, 80 pages, 7.5 x 11.9 x 0.4 inches $17 Buy a copy on Amazon
Near the end of the 1800s, Native American children were taken to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania to be educated in the ways of the white settlers. They were forbidden to speak their native languages, their clothes were replaced with uniforms, and the boys’ heads were shaved. As part of their reeducation, the children used pictographic art to tell their life stories. In this beautifully rendered metafiction, the book you hold is the very ledger in which Thomas Blue Eagle wrote and drew his story.
In the first half of the book, Blue Eagle learns the ways of his own people and describes his life as a young Sioux. He cares for his pony, learns to hunt and be brave, and earns his name from a vision. The second half of the book is further coming of age, but this time as a fish out of water as Thomas navigates the Carlisle School. He studies, fights, forms bonds, and chooses his name from a list on a blackboard. Mirrored by commonalities (such as two very different ball games), both halves of the book have wonder, beauty, turmoil, and sadness.
The authors clearly took pains to get the details right, having done extensive research and enlisting the help of a Lakota advisor. And the artist ventured far from his typical style to present art that not only looks beautiful but also perfectly conveys the verisimilitude of a child’s shaky, simple, and colorful drawings. The book itself is made of lush, debossed blue boards bound to look like an actual ledger with time-worn pages. It’s a book for all ages really, though what better way to teach non-Native children the ways of the Indian people than by reading about Native children learning the ways of the non-Native children? – Aaron Downey
May 4, 2015
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Как же хочется иногда так же залесть куда нибудь на крышу, сесть и задуматься
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Такие же как у неё печальные уставшие глаза
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Jessica Lange aka Elsa Mars pen drawing by casualchoice
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