{"id":532,"date":"2017-05-15T06:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-05-15T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:12:27","slug":"biography-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/2017\/05\/15\/biography-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louis Runnels was a student of the Carlisle Indian school from 1902 to 1911. \u00a0Runnels<\/a> was a member of the Sanpoil tribe, which is located currently on the Colville Reservation<\/a> in Washington State.\"\"<\/p>\n

While not much is known about his early life, some things can be seen learned from his records.<\/a>\u00a0 He was born on July 15th, 1886<\/a>.\u00a0 He was considered to be \u201chalf-blooded<\/a>,\u201d as his father was a white man by the name of George W. Runnels, and his mother, Ellen Runnels, was a woman from the Sanpoil tribe.\u00a0 Runnels had several brothers and sisters, such as Tommy Runnels<\/a> and Hiram B. Runnels<\/a>.\u00a0 It can be seen from his records that he was raised Catholic<\/a>, a common occurrence for most children raised on the reservation after 1872.\u00a0 It is believed that Runnels lived on the reservation for a few years, as his school records<\/a> indicate that he attended two different schools there. \u00a0In 1902, Runnels began attending the Carlisle Indian school at the age of 16<\/a>, and stayed enrolled in the school for roughly 5 years before being \u201cdischarged\u201d in 1907.\u00a0 After a little more than a year, Runnels would go on to re-enroll in the school<\/a>, and would stay enrolled until he graduated in 1911 at the age of 25. \u00a0From his files<\/a>, it can be seen that Runnels was a student of good conduct and scholarship, who had an interest and possible talent for business<\/a>. \u00a0After graduating, he would go on to attend the \u201cBlair Business College<\/a>\u201d in Spokane, Washington, and another school in Keller, Washington.\u00a0 The order in which he attended these two schools is unknown.\"\"<\/p>\n

Runnels submitted the story The Struggle Against Darkness<\/i> in the September 1911 edition of The Red Man and Helper<\/i><\/a>. \u00a0Based upon the publication date, it is believed that Runnels submitted the story as an alumnus, as he graduated several months prior in April, 1911<\/a>.\u00a0 Given this information, it can be assumed that Runnels was acting as a Tribal Educator, as he sent in the work to have readers learn about his tribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louis Runnels was a student of the Carlisle Indian school from 1902 to 1911. \u00a0Runnels was a member of the Sanpoil tribe, which is located currently on the Colville Reservation in Washington State. While not much is known about his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141058,141037],"tags":[141406,141400,141403,141402,141405,141408,141072,141407,141073,141410,141404,25728],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louis-runnels","category-tribal-educators","tag-blair-business-college","tag-colville-reservation","tag-ellen-runnels","tag-george-w-runnels","tag-hiram-b-runnels","tag-keller","tag-sanpoil","tag-spokane","tag-the-red-man","tag-the-struggle-against-darkness","tag-tommy-runnels","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlisleindianindustrialschoolwritinganthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}