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The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 through 1918.
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.
This is an alphabetical list of Native American boarding schools. ... Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, [18] open 1879–1918. [19]
In September, the remains of three children who died at Carlisle were disinterred and returned to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. At least 973 Native American children died at government-funded Indian boarding schools that operated for more than 150 years, according to an Interior Department investigation.
It was the first school of its type and became a template for a network of government-backed Native American boarding schools that ultimately expanded to at least 37 states and territories. “About 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent to Carlisle — stolen from their families, their tribes and their homelands.
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]
Native American girls from the Omaha tribe at Carlisle School, Pa., ca. 1870s. Credit - Corbis via Getty Images. ... As generations before them in mission and boarding schools, Native students in ...
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 ...