Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 62, no. 371, [April] [1881], pp. 659-675
Description
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.
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.
Journal of American Drama and Theatre, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2012, pp. [33]-48
Description
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], May 2019, pp. 25-48
Description
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.
Ozark Historical Review, vol. 37, Spring, 2008, pp. [1]-19
Description
Discusses the three methods used by Armstrong to secure funding from the government and philanthropists: celebrity endorsements, fund raising tours, and student correspondence.