Tuxedo Press is reprinting period books related to Carlisle Indian School as they become available to us. The first to be reprinted are two books that were jointly illustrated by Angel DeCora and Lone Star Dietz while they were on the faculty.

Books Illustrated by Angel DeCora & Lone Star Dietz

Yellow Star by Elaine Goodale Eastman

A young Ojibwa girl, Yellow Star, who was called Stella by her adoptive white mother, struggles to cope with attending  a New England school and living in the majority society.  

Elaine Goodale was born into a cultivated, literate New England farm family and began a published writer as a child. As an adult, she first taught freed slaves and Native Americans at Hampton Institute in Virginia, before moving to Dakota Territory where she set up a school  for educating Sioux children. She moved up the hierarchy in the Department of Indian Affairs while continuing her writing career. Miss Goodale married, Dr. Ohiyesa George Eastman, a Santee Sioux who was educated at Dartmouth and Boston University.

Angel DeCora and her husband, William Henry Lone Star Dietz, jointly painted the illustrations while they were on the faculty of Carlisle Indian School. Estranged from his white father, Dietz went by the name William Lone Star at that time.

284 pages, 4 large illustrations, softcover, ISBN 978-1-936161-61-4

$17.00

The Little Buffalo Robe by Ruth Everett Beck

Told from the point of view of a young Omaha girl, Tun-in-gi-na, this story was originally intended for young people but is interesting to readers of all ages. Beck shares her knowledge of Plains Indian customs, beliefs and practices, especially those of the Omaha who lived near her when she was growing up in Nebraska. The girl's beliefs regarding the spirit world are most interesting.  

Ruth Everett Beck was educated at the University of Nebraska and Fremont Normal School. She married pioneer aviator Paul Ward Beck whose military assignments gave her the opportunity to study local peoples and become something of an expert on Plains Indians. Her other books include The Heart of a Filipino and  The Trail.

Angel DeCora and her husband, William Henry Lone Star Dietz, jointly illustrated this book. She did the four full-page paintings and some of the smaller drawings. Dietz did most of the small sketches.  Estranged from his white father, Dietz went by the name Lone Star and often signed his work with a distinctive chop or the initials, L. S., at that time.

234 pages, 4 large& numerous smaller illustrations, softcover, ISBN 978-1-936161-62-1

$17.00