Isaac Longshore was a student at Carlisle. He came from Oklahoma, specifically from the Sac and Fox tribe. He went on several outing …
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Stories From a Sacred Place: The Buried Facts on Wallace Berryman
This article focuses on two Native American boys, a Seminole student named Wallace Berryman, and a student from Alaska named Henry Rose. …
Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904
General Richard Henry Pratt is best known as the founder of the Carlisle Indian School. His impact on federal Indian policy and education …
“The Lost Ones” Long Journey Home
The Lost Ones: Long Journey Home documents the story of two Lipan Apache children captured along the Texas-Mexican border in 1877 by the 4th …
My People the Sioux
Standing Bear, the son of a Lakota chief, has led an interesting life. As a student he was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, …
A search for native children who died while on ‘Outings’ in PA
Many students at Carlisle were "loaned out" to white families to work as cheap labor in what were called 'Outings'. Deaths occurred through …
“Kill the Indian, and Save the Man”: Captain Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans
An excerpt from a paper written by Capt. Richard H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School on the purpose his school would serve in …
John Sayles Directing New Film, “To Save the Man”
A film is going to be made about Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and focuses on an Ojibwe student who is brought to the school and …
‘Those kids never got to go home.’
Members of the Rosebud Sioux tribe want the bodies of children who died while attending the Carilsle Indian school to be returned to the …