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Campus Day at the Government School
31. Campus Day at the Government School, 1936
(BIA, Wind River Agency)
 Many
remembered basketball and other sports as highlights of their school
years. Older students who transferred to off-reservations schools
willingly made the top grades required to travel with a team; excelling
in sports, then as now, was one way to get out and see the world.
If you didn’t make the grade, well you didn’t make
the trip. And that’s what I mean, here [Wind River) from
the sticks you know. I wanted to be able to go see other towns,
like Kansas City. I went through Lawrence and St. Joseph...at
least there was an outing there. We didn’t have money to
go on our own, we had to earn our trip. So I had to do extra studying
in order to keep up....And we had people who would help us anytime
we asked for it....You didn’t have that here [Wind River].
It was just tough luck if I didn’t pay attention. (Arnold
Headly, who attended St. Michael’s, Government School, and
Haskell)
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