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- Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Indigenous Education
summary
The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.
More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and also served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its founder and supporters ever grasped.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.
More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and also served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its founder and supporters ever grasped.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-34
- Part 1. A Sacred and Storied Place
- 1. The Stones at Carlisle
- pp. 43-53
- Part 2. Student Lives and Losses
- 4. The Names
- pp. 88-105
- Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery
- 8. Cementerio indio
- pp. 145-151
- Part 4. Reclamations
- Part 5. Revisioning the Past
- Part 6. Reflections and Responses
- 17. The Spirit Survives
- pp. 315-332
- 19. The Presence of Ghosts
- pp. 337-340
- 20. A Sacred Space
- pp. 341-343
- 21. Carlisle: My Hometown
- pp. 344-351
- Chronology
- pp. 357-362
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 363-372
- Contributors
- pp. 377-382
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803295094
Related ISBN(s)
9780803278912
MARC Record
OCLC
956626800
Pages
440
Launched on MUSE
2016-08-15
Language
English
Open Access
No