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Book SynopsisCarlisle Indian Industrial Schooloffers 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.
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
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“By bringing together such a diverse range of voices—academics and non-academics, Native and non-Natives—to speak about the history and legacy of what remains the most well-known Indian boarding school, this book does us all a great service. The contributors share their important stories with exceptional grace, insight, and power.”—Stephen Amerman, professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University and author of Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose
Welcome, with Seneca Thanksgiving Prayer “We Are One” by Peter Jemison (Seneca)
Part 1. A Sacred and Storied Place
1. The Stones at Carlisle
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
2. Before Carlisle: The Lower Susquehanna Valley as Contested Native Space
Christopher J. Bilodeau
Part 2. Student Lives and Losses
3. Photograph: Carlisle Poem—Who Is This Boy?
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
4. The Names
Barbara Landis
5. White Power and the Performance of Assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School
Louellyn White (Mohawk)
6. The Imperial Gridiron: Dealing with the Legacy of Carlisle Indian School Sports
John Bloom
7. Waste
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery
8. Cementerio indio
Eduardo Jordá
Translation by Mark C. Aldrich
9. The History and Reclamation of a Sacred Space: The Indian School Cemetery
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
10. Death at Carlisle: Naming the Unknowns in the Cemetery
Barbara Landis
Part 4. Reclamations
11. The Lost Ones: Piecing Together the Story
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Ndé Memory
Margo Tamez (Ndé/Lipan Apache)
13. Sacred Journey: Restoring My Plains Indian Tipi
Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota)
14. Carlisle Farmhouse: A Major Site of Memory
Carolyn Tolman
Part 5. Revisioning the Past
15. Research Note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project
Malinda Triller Doran
16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Projects for Teaching
Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher
Part 6. Reflections and Responses
17. The Spirit Survives
Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache)
18. Response to Visiting Carlisle: Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma
Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota)
19. The Presence of Ghosts
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
20. A Sacred Space
Sharon O’Brien
21. Carlisle: My Hometown
Charles Fox
22. The Ndé and Carlisle: Reflections on the Symposium
Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Ndé/Lipan Apache)
Epilogue
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Published Resources for Researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Contributors
Index
