Grace, her mother, and sisters.

ID: 937 ~ Source: Family Photographs: Copy Prints from the Oklahoma Historical Society; (n.d); Grace F. Thorpe Collection, Folder 6; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
 ~ Creator: National Museum of the American Indian ~ Date: Date unknown
This file appears in: Childhood and Education
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This is a photo of Grace as a young girl with her older sisters and mother.

This file appears in: Childhood and Education

By Grace Thorpe
“I was in my teens, my early teens then. And then Mother remarried and took my two older sisters and I into Chicago. But I left school at fifteen, and I like to say that’s when I really started learning. I know school people don’t like me to tell…