Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Subtitle: indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations
By: edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose
Series: Indigenous education; Indigenous education
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780803278912; 9780803295070; 9780803295087; 9780803295094
Subjects: Collective memory; Ethnic identity; Indian students; Indians of North America; Cultural assimilation; Relocation; History; Racism in education; Off-reservation boarding schools; United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.); Education; Treatment of Indians
Description: "This collection interweaves the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting edge research by Native and non-Native scholars to reveal the complex history and enduring legacies of the school that spearheaded the federal campaign for Indian assimilation."--Provided by publisher.

Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome, with Seneca thanksgiving prayer "We are one" by Peter Jemison (Seneca); title: Part 1. A sacred and storied place. 1. The stones at Carlisle / N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa); title: 2. Before Carlisle: the lower Susquehanna Valley as contested native space / Christopher J. Bilodeau; title: Part 2. Student lives and losses. 3. Photograph: Carlisle poem; title: Who is this boy? / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk); title: 4. The names / Barbara Landis; title: 5. White power and the performance of assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School / Louellyn White (Mohawk); title: 6. The imperial gridiron: dealing with the legacy of Carlisle Indian School sports / John Bloom; title: 7. Waste / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk); title: Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery. 8. Cementerio indio / Eduardo Jorda, translation by Mark C. Aldrich; title: 9. The history and reclamation of sacred space: the Indian school cemetery / Jacqueline Fear-Segal; title: 10. Death at Carlisle: naming the unknowns in the cemetery / Barbara Landis; title: Part 4. Reclamations. 11. The lost ones: piecing together the story / Jacqueline Fear-Segal; title: 12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Nde memory / Margo Tamez (Nde/Lipan Apache); title: 13. Sacred journey: restoring my plains Indian tipi / Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota); title: 14. Carlisle Farmhouse: a major site of memory / Carolyn Tolman; title: Part 5. Revisioning the past. 15. Research note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project / Malinda Triller Doran; title: 16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: projects for teaching / Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher; title: Part 6. Reflections and responses. 17. The spirit survives / Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache); title: 18. Response to visiting Carlisle: experiencing intergenerational trauma / Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota); title: 19. The presence of ghosts / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk); title: 20. A sacred space / Sharon O'Brien; title: 21. Carlisle: my hometown / Charles Fox; title: 22. The Nde and Carlisle: reflections on the symposium / Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Nde/Lipan Apache); title: Epilogue: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa).