Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations

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Fear-Segal, Jacqueline and Rose, Susan D., eds. (2016) Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations. Indigenous Education Series . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. ISBN 978-0-8032-7891-2

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Abstract

The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. 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 10,500 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 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 initiators 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 touches the lives of many Native Americans.

Item Type: Book
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2016 09:49
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:16
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57966
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