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Between 1879 and 1918, over 10,000 Native American students from 140 tribes attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School. [6] Lieutenant Pratt and Southern Plains veterans of the Red River War at Fort Marion in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1875; several of these veterans later attended Carlisle Industrial School Richard Henry Pratt with a young student
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More than 10,000 children passed through the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School by the time it closed in 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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Carlisle was also the location of the Carlisle Army Barracks, which was converted in the late 1870s for use as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1879, Dickinson College and the nearby Carlisle Indian School began a collaboration, when James Andrew McCauley, president of the college, led the first worship service at the Indian School ...