Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations - Paperback

$64.80

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations - Paperback

Name: Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations - Paperback
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SKU: 9781496207692
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Book Overview

by Jacqueline Fear-Segal (Editor), Susan D. Rose (Editor)

Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.

The Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school's founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man's ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.

More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and also served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its founder and supporters ever grasped.

ISBN	9781496207692
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Genre	History and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	November 2018
Language	ENG- English
Pages	414
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print