Today is day 150(Day 3 of Specials)
- Mission Statement: Konnoak Elementary School will provide a quality education in a nurturing environment that will develop each child’s potential and promote life-long learning.
- Vision Statement: Students will learn and succeed in a safe, engaging, and caring climate of high expectations and supportive relationships
- Principal's Lunch Club at 11:30 in the media center
- I will be at a Celebrity Read at Hall-Woodward at 1 pm
- LeapFrog Pilot Training for selected teachers starting at 7:45 am in the media center
- The buliding will be open from 9:30-12:00 on Saturday
- In order to better serve your professional development needs, please take a few minutes to respond to an anonymous survey. The survey can be found on the Administrators' or Teachers' webportal. You will log in and click on the Professional Development Needs Assessment Survey on the left side of the screen. That will take you to the survey where you will click on Respond to Survey at the top to complete on or before May 17, 2010. Thank you for your participation
Book Fair Information
- Media Center will be cancelled due to Book Fair Set-up on Thursday May 6th
- Book Fair Preview on May 7th
- Sale will begin on May 10th.
- Please do not send students to the book fair alone
- Please do not leave your students unattended during the book fair
The Buffalo Soldier Story
ReplyDeleteNearly sixteen months after the end of the Civil War, Section 3 of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to increase and fix the Military Peace Establishment of the United States” authorized the formation of two regiments of cavalry composed of “colored” men. The act was approved on 28 July 1866. On 21 September 1866, the 9th Cavalry Regiment was activated at Greenville, Louisiana, and the 10th Cavalry Regiment was activated at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Under the competent leadership of Colonels Edward Hatch and Benjamin Grierson, first Regimental Commanders of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments, respectively, both regiments were trained and equipped and began a long and proud history.
For over two decades, the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments conducted campaigns against American Indian tribes on a Western Frontier that extended from Montana in the Northwest to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the Southwest. They engaged in several skirmishes against such great Indian Chiefs as Victorio, Geronimo, and Nana. “Buffalo Soldiers” was the name given the black cavalrymen by the Plains Indians. Reason for the name is uncertain. One view is that the Indians saw a resemblance between the black man’s hair and the mane of a buffalo. Another view is that when a buffalo was wounded or cornered, it fought ferociously, displaying unusual stamina and courage. This was the same fighting spirit Indians saw in combat with black cavalrymen. Since Indians held the buffalo in such high regard, it was felt that the name was not given in contempt.
When not engaged in combat with Indians, both regiments built forts and roads, installed telegraph lines, located water holes, escorted wagon trains and cattle drives, rode “Shotgun” on stagecoach and mail runs, and protected settlers from renegade Indians, outlaws, and Mexican revolutionaries. Elements of both regiments fought in Cuba during the War with Spain and participated in the famous charge on San Juan Hill. Troopers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment rode with General John J. Pershing during the Punitive Expedition in Mexico in search of Pancho Villa. In 1941, the two regiments formed the 4th Cavalry Brigade, commanded by General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., at Camp Funston, Kansas. In 1944, the end came to the horse cavalry regiments and the curtain was lowered on the long and glorious past of “The Buffalo Soldiers.”