Hampton

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.

Explores the interconnections between theater and history and the black and Native americanization program at Hampton Institute.

Collection of sayings and "teachings".

Series of photographs of activities; accompanied by captions.

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.

Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

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.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Richmond, 2004.

Discusses how the pageant, which traced the history of the U.S. and was enacted during the annual "Indian Day" at the school, was used to teach children that only the white, Christian lifestyle was correct.

Using a comparative approach to the two institutions argues that their primary goal was to mold Indigenous and Black students into a labor force for U.S. racial-settler capitalism.

Discusses the three methods used by Armstrong to secure funding from the government and philanthropists: celebrity endorsements, fund raising tours, and student correspondence.