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The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is a publicly accessible digital archive of material pertaining to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The project is run by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Waidner-Spahr Library at Dickinson College , and by the Community Studies Center at Dickinson College .
933 images from student files, school publications, the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, the Cumberland County Historical Society, private collections, and user contributions. [4] 214 Publications originating from the school itself, including the campus publications The Red Man and The Indian Helper. Digitization of these ...
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
PHOTO: Elementary school class of Indian students with botanical specimens at United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1901. (Boarding school for Native American students, founded in ...
The children were often taken against the will of their parents, and an estimated 187 Native American and Alaska Native children died at the institution in Carlisle, including from tuberculosis and other diseases. There are ongoing efforts to return the children's remains, which were buried on the school's grounds, to their homelands.
Samuel had been at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania for just 47 days when he died in 1895. Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe ...
Beginning in 1879 and lasting through the 1960s, Native American children were forced into Indian Boarding Schools across the country for the express purpose of assimilation.
In 1879, young Standing Bear began attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Luther's father was aware of white people's great numbers and influence, and he believed that education was the path Indians must follow in order to survive in the "white world". [4]