Carlisle

Contains links to: Key Issues and Challenges, A School's 1912 Daily Schedule, Excerpts from Zitkala-Sa's Nineteenth Century Account, About the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, About the Phoenix Indian School, Assimilation through Education, An Indian Boarding School Photo Gallery.

Pamphlet produced in response to debates in Congress on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Includes various letters, articles, statistics, extract from Congressional Record, and The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks, published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in 1880.

Liberal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Dartmouth College, 2013.

Lesson plan for use with Grades 5-12.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University, 1979.

Website includes links to digitized student records, list and ledgers, cemetery information, teaching resources, and publications such as The Indian Helper and The Red Man.

Focuses on women who left the institution, became professional writers, and used their literacy skills to subvert the assimilationist goals of the boarding school system.

"Second edition." Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

A historical perspective on the boarding school experience.

Using official records from the first and largest off-reservation Indian boarding school in his case study, the author challenges the objectivity of morality rates. Factors such as definition of a student or alumni and including ill students that were discharged before their deaths can change the numbers drastically.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2017.

"Year ending June 30, 1911." Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Historical overview of Carlisle Indian Industrial School which provided education and industrial training of American Indians.

Using photographs from the Carlisle Indian boarding school to examine the historical value of photographs as both visual artifacts and constructed ideals the same as the written word.

Comments on boarding schools, mission and day schools, and education policies

Praises the work of the schools, gives brief description of the curriculum, and describes how eager the pupils' families are for them to become assimilated.

Brief pamphlet produced when the school had only been in existence for four months. Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Looks at the history of a unique Indian burial site and its reclamation as a place for ceremony, healing, and recovery.

Examines the motives and methods of the founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which became a model for residential schools. Senior History Honours Thesis (B.A.)--Colby College, 2013.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Washington University, 2005.

Excerpt from Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear. Published by University of Nebraska Press. Author discusses his time at Carlilse Indian Industrial School.

Discusses the Indian Helper, a newspaper published at the school, and the information it conveys in terms of the "civilizing campaign" and the children's responses. Excerpt from: Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Education Experiences edited by Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.

Looks at the Carlisle school football team and its importance to the school, students, and cross-cultural relations.

Looks at the role Anglicization of names played in attempts to erase Native American identity and further the goal of assimilation. History Honors Thesis (B.A.)--University of Colorado Boulder, 2019.

Discusses history of the school and the impact on students and their descendants. Originally published in Central Pennsylvania Magazine, 2000.

Educational Policy Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.

Agues that publications served an advocacy purpose to combat the negative attitudes held by the general public, but only presented what would further cause these attitudes, not the true opinions of students. Scroll to p. 60 read paper.

Discusses the significance of physical activity, sportsmanship & racial pride in the lives of the Native students & educators at the Chilocco Indian School and other boarding schools.

Argues that the author used her essays to criticize the school's agenda "civilizing" students and to assert that Native Americans should determine their own educational needs.

Explores the meaning and implications of ledger drawings made by Aboriginal men in the late nineteenth century within the context of the book culture.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1967.

Educational Administration Thesis (Ed.Doc.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1998.

Looks at factors which contributed to Pratt's goal of total assimilation of Native Americans into American society, and how he implemented it during his 25-year superintendency of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Argues that while sports have received more attention as an assimilationist force, the practice of suppressing both traditional music itself and its traditional role in spirituality and replacing it with Western musical styles, was an equally powerful tool and public performances were used as a propaganda tool to prove how successful the school had been in "civilizing" their students.

Monthly newsletter was produced by the Carlisle Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Reflects attitudes and policies of the time. Issues included: June-1880, Sept-Dec 1880, Jan-May 1881, September 1881-January 1882, April 1882, December 1882.

Dual History and Archives Management Thesis (M.A.)--Simmons College, 2012.

Mainly photographs.

Catalogue to accompany exhibition of the same name held January 30-February 28, 2004 at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.