The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors
Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge’s 1917 book Teepee Neighbors is a little-known collection of twenty-nine sketches of Indian life on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, where she worked as a missionary from 1902 to 1910. Only recently have Coolidge’s personal papers been made publicly available by...
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Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge’s 1917 book Teepee Neighbors is a little-known collection of twenty-nine sketches of Indian life on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, where she worked as a missionary from 1902 to 1910. Only recently have Coolidge’s personal papers been made publicly available by the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, allowing scholars to investigate the true contours of her life for the first time. These primary source materials shed new light on a woman who—though born to great privilege in New York City—rejected a life of leisure and wealth in favor of a subsistence existence on a remote Indian reservation, devoted to charitable acts. This paper offers the first accurate essay-length biographical treatment of Grace Coolidge. It as well analyzes selections of her Teepee Neighbors as an attempt to generate sympathy among white readers for a colonized people, the Arapaho, and to offer a critique of Euro-American society from the standpoint of the communal Indian values she encountered at Wind River. Coolidge’s project, however, is ultimately hampered by her own ethnocentrism and admitted inability to understand Indian cultures.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c7fd9c6b768466799b324c9171cf9772023-03-02T21:22:25ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262023-03-0176110.5007/2175-8026.2023.e86385The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee NeighborsTadeusz Lewandowski0University of Opole, University of Ostrava Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge’s 1917 book Teepee Neighbors is a little-known collection of twenty-nine sketches of Indian life on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, where she worked as a missionary from 1902 to 1910. Only recently have Coolidge’s personal papers been made publicly available by the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, allowing scholars to investigate the true contours of her life for the first time. These primary source materials shed new light on a woman who—though born to great privilege in New York City—rejected a life of leisure and wealth in favor of a subsistence existence on a remote Indian reservation, devoted to charitable acts. This paper offers the first accurate essay-length biographical treatment of Grace Coolidge. It as well analyzes selections of her Teepee Neighbors as an attempt to generate sympathy among white readers for a colonized people, the Arapaho, and to offer a critique of Euro-American society from the standpoint of the communal Indian values she encountered at Wind River. Coolidge’s project, however, is ultimately hampered by her own ethnocentrism and admitted inability to understand Indian cultures. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/86385Grace Darling Wetherbee CoolidgeTeepee Neighborsreservation lifemissionaryArapaho |
| spellingShingle | Tadeusz Lewandowski The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors Ilha do Desterro Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge Teepee Neighbors reservation life missionary Arapaho |
| title | The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors |
| title_full | The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors |
| title_fullStr | The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors |
| title_short | The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors |
| title_sort | wind river scribe grace darling wetherbee coolidge and her teepee neighbors |
| topic | Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge Teepee Neighbors reservation life missionary Arapaho |
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