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

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and ReclamationsThe Carlisle Indian School (18791918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the schools founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white mans 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 10,500 children from virtually every

celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages

but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement

a tale of passion

Mann examines such fascinating subjects as the connections between malaria and slavery

and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting

We move through the dream that is this novel

"—Winona LaDuke

chiefly at L'Anse (Michigan) on Keweenaw Bay

author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing

I am doing my best to breathe in and out

Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants

and looks at the absurdities of modern America