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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 .
The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is a publicly accessible digital archive of material originating from or pertaining to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School that operated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918. [1]
Thousands of Native children passed through the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918, including Olympian Jim Thorpe. They came from dozens of tribes under forced assimilation policies that were meant to erase Native American traditions and “civilize" the children so they would better fit into white society.
This is a list of industrial schools, a type of school that teaches vocational training, domestic training, and manual labour. The list includes active and defunct schools. The list includes active and defunct schools.
The White House said Monday Biden would announce the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument on Monday during a tribal leaders summit. More than 10,000 children passed through the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School by the time it closed in 1918, including Olympian Jim Thorpe.
Biden formally declared the monument at the Pennsylvania site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which was established in 1879 as the first such school outside a Native American reservation ...
Jul. 12—MORGANTOWN — Three hours from Morgantown in Pennsylvania, founded in 1879, is the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Yet, many, even people from the area, don't even know it ...
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School's outing program started in 1880. [13] Twenty-four children were sent out, but most of the host families returned their assigned children to the school. [ 13 ] 109 children were used in Carlisle's outing program the following year, and only six host families returned their assigned children to the school ...