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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 ...
An early football team, called the "Pirates", at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded in 1879 by an American cavalry officer, Richard Henry Pratt, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Its purpose was to facilitate the assimilation of the Native American population into mainstream American ...
FILE - A building that formed part of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus is seen at U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File ...
Lieut. Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa., coined the motto “kill the Indian, save the man” to summarize the schools’ mission.
John Nicolas Choate (1848–1902) was an American photographer in Carlisle, Pennsylvania known for his glass plate negative images of the Carlisle Indian School, scenic shots, and images of the town and townspeople. [1] [2] Dickinson College has a collection of his glass plates. [3]
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 ...
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.