 | Henry Roe Cloud |
The life and career of Henry Roe Cloud, Yale College's first Native American graduate, are celebrated in a display now on view at Sterling Memorial Library.
After graduating from the University in 1910, Cloud became one of the most renowned Native American educators of the early 20th century, improving social and educational opportunities for all indigenous peoples in the United States.
Born into the Thunderbird Clan on Dec. 28, 1884 on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska, Cloud attended the mission-run Santee Normal Training School near the South Dakota-Nebraska border. He trained as a printer and blacksmith before accepting a place at Yale. His entire life transformed in the spring of his freshman year after he attended a lecture by missionary Mary Wickham Roe about Native Americans' conversion to Christianity, something that anchored Cloud's religious beliefs and was a major force in his work throughout his life. He went on to excel in both government service and service to Native American people throughout the United States.
The exhibit includes photographs and other documents that trace Cloud's relationships and achievements, with a particular focus on his life at Yale as both an undergraduate and a graduate student, and on his family. Included are a copy of the 1910 Yale College yearbook, ephemera from Cloud's speaking career during and after college, and correspondence written to his adoptive parents. The material is drawn almost exclusively from the Roe Family Papers, held by Manuscripts and Archives, the largest cache of materials relating to Cloud still extant in the United States.
The exhibit will remain on display until Saturday, Oct. 14, and is a precursor to "A Celebration of Henry Roe Cloud and Yale's Native American Community," which will be held at Yale Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 5-6. Events during the weekend will include a public drum performance on Cross Campus; tours and lectures for Native American students, alumni and friends; and a ceremony awarding the first Henry Roe Cloud Native American Alumni Achievement Medal and the first Association of Native Americans at Yale Community Medal.
The weekend celebration is sponsored by a number of campus organizations, including the Native American Cultural Center Board, the Association of Native Americans at Yale, the Yale Dean's Office, the Association of Yale Alumni, Native American Yale Alumni and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.
For more information, contact kathleen.burns@yale.edu.
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