Carlisle Indian Industrial School : indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fear-Segal, Jacqueline, Rose, Susan D., 1955- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Series:Indigenous education.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome, with Seneca thanksgiving prayer "We are one" by Peter Jemison (Seneca)
  • Part 1. A sacred and storied place. 1. The stones at Carlisle / N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
  • 2. Before Carlisle: the lower Susquehanna Valley as contested native space / Christopher J. Bilodeau
  • Part 2. Student lives and losses. 3. Photograph: Carlisle poem - Who is this boy? / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
  • 4. The names / Barbara Landis
  • 5. White power and the performance of assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School / Louellyn White (Mohawk)
  • 6. The imperial gridiron: dealing with the legacy of Carlisle Indian School sports / John Bloom
  • 7. Waste / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
  • Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery. 8. Cementerio indio / Eduardo Jorda, translation by Mark C. Aldrich
  • 9. The history and reclamation of sacred space: the Indian school cemetery / Jacqueline Fear-Segal
  • 10. Death at Carlisle: naming the unknowns in the cemetery / Barbara Landis
  • Part 4. Reclamations. 11. The lost ones: piecing together the story / Jacqueline Fear-Segal
  • 12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Nde memory / Margo Tamez (Nde/Lipan Apache)
  • 13. Sacred journey: restoring my plains Indian tipi / Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota)
  • 14. Carlisle Farmhouse: a major site of memory / Carolyn Tolman
  • Part 5. Revisioning the past. 15. Research note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project / Malinda Triller Doran
  • 16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: projects for teaching / Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher
  • Part 6. Reflections and responses. 17. The spirit survives / Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache)
  • 18. Response to visiting Carlisle: experiencing intergenerational trauma / Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota)
  • 19. The presence of ghosts / Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
  • 20. A sacred space / Sharon O'Brien
  • 21. Carlisle: my hometown / Charles Fox
  • 22. The Nde and Carlisle: reflections on the symposium / Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Nde/Lipan Apache)
  • Epilogue: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa).