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About Indian Boarding Schools: Background to Louise Erdrich's Poem

Alternate Title
Modern American Poetry
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Department of English
University of Illinois
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.
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Are the Eastern Industrial Training Schools for Indian Children a Failure?

Alternate Title
[A Crisis in the Cause of Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work for Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work]
[Christian Schools among the Indians: A Letter from Bishop Hare]
[Hampton's Indian Students at Home]
[Statistics Relating to Indian Schools, 1882]
[The Church and the Indians]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Helen W. Ludlow
James McLaughlin
Elaine Goodale
William H. Hare
Herbert Welsh
Charles Warren]

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.

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Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Archives & Special Collections
Dickerson College

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.

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Counting Carlisle's Casualties: Defining Student Death at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Vitale
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, Fall, 2020, pp. [383]-414
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.
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The Great White Father's Little Red Indian School

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daniel T. Chapman
American Heritage Magazine, vol. 22, no. 1, December 1970
Historical overview of Carlisle Indian Industrial School which provided education and industrial training of American Indians.
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"Imitation White Man": Images of Transformation at the Carlisle Indian School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lonna M. Malmsheimer
Studies in Visual Communication, vol. 11, no. 4, Fall, 1985, pp. 54-75
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.
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Indian Boarding Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda J. Child
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, vol. 13, no. 1, 2016, pp. 25-27
Comments on boarding schools, mission and day schools, and education policies
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Indian Education at Hampton and Carlisle

Articles » General
Author/Creator
[Helen W. Ludlow]
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 62, no. 371, [April] [1881], pp. 659-675
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.
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The Man on the Bandstand at Carlisle Indian Industrial School: What He Reveals about the Children's Experiences

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
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.
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The Publications of the Carlisle Indian School: Cultural Voices or Pure Propaganda?

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication ; 80th, 1997. History Division
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beth A. Haller
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.
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Representations of Sport in the Indian School Journal, 1906-1913

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah K. Fields
Journal of Sport History, vol. 35, no. 2, Indigenous Sport, Summer, 2008, pp. 241-259
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.
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The Role of Music in Assimilation of Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Abigail C. Winston
Gettysburg Historical Journal, vol. 18, 2019, pp. 94-126
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.
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The School News

Documents & Presentations
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.
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