46 Facts About Carlisle Indian Industrial School

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However, "unlike Hampton, whose purpose was to return assimilated educated Indians to their people, Carlisle meant to turn the school into the ultimate Americanizer".

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was known to use corporal punishment on students who exhibited Native behavior, so that they would rely only on themselves.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School gradually introduced them to classes in the English language, art, guard duty, and craftsmanship.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School thought its proximity to officials in Washington, DC would help him educate officials about the Indian capacity for learning.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School officials required students to take new English names, either by choice or assignment.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was asked to choose a name from a list on the wall.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School randomly pointed at the symbols on a wall, and was renamed as Luther.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School discipline was strict and consistent, according to the military tradition.

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Elaine Goodale Eastman, who had supervised government Indian education on reservations west of the Missouri River, later wrote of Carlisle that organizing Indian boys into squads and companies appealed to their warrior traditions.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School believed they complied because they wanted to earn officers' ranks, recognition, and privileges.

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11.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School observed that there was 'genuine affection' between the Captain and the students.

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12.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School said that he had found a good job, was working hard, and had saved some money.

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13.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School traveled to Dakota Territory to recruit Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota students for the new school.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School said that the Natives were disadvantaged by being unable to speak and write English and, if they had that knowledge, they might have been able to protect themselves.

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Consent to send students to Carlisle was often gained with concessions, such as the promise to allow tribal leaders inspect the school soon after it opened.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a tribal leader and head of a large household with at least ten children.

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17.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School believed that his children would have to deal with whites, and perhaps live with them, whether they liked it or not.

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18.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School decided to send two sons and a daughter for the first class at Carlisle.

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19.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School term was five years, and the consent forms which the parents signed before the agent so stated.

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20.

In 1905, a survey of 296 Carlisle Indian Industrial School graduates showed that 124 had entered government service, and 47 were employed off the reservations.

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21.

In 1880, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, was a thriving town as a borough and county seat of Cumberland County, west of the Susquehanna River, with a population of 6,209 people.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School boasted a low unemployment rate and a high literacy rate at the time of the census.

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23.

The older Carlisle Indian Industrial School boys sang songs aloud in order to keep their spirits up and remain courageous, even though they were frightened.

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24.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School curricula included subjects such as English, math, history, drawing and composition.

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25.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School students were required to attend a daily service and two services on Sundays.

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26.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School club or Pelhwan Meel is an exercise equipment tool of Persian origin introduced from India.

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27.

Over sixty of the boys from Carlisle Indian Industrial School were subsequently hired and worked steadily for Ford.

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28.

The majority of white people think the Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a lazy good-for-nothing.

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29.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School coached the exceptional athlete Jim Thorpe and his teammates, bringing national recognition to the small school.

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30.

The Carlisle Indians developed a rivalry with Harvard and loved to sarcastically mimic the Harvard accent.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School students labeled any excellent performance, whether on the field or in the classroom, as "Harvard style".

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On November 9,1912, Carlisle Indian Industrial School was to meet the US Military Academy in a game at West Point, New York, between two of the top teams in the country.

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33.

Carlisle Indian Band earned an international reputation under a talented Oneida musician, Dennison Wheelock, who became noted as its leader, composer and compiler of modified Native airs.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was greatly dismayed to find there that her mother's house was in disrepair and her brother's family in poverty, and that white settlers were beginning to occupy the land promised to the Yankton Dakota by the Dawes Act of 1877.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School resented the rigid program of assimilation and argued that the curricula did not encourage Native American children to aspire to anything beyond lives spent in menial labor.

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Carlisle Indian Band performed at world fairs, expositions and at every national presidential inaugural celebration until the school closed - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1915.

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37.

Carlisle Indian School was a well-spring for the Society of American Indians, the first Indian rights organization created by and for Indians.

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On March 4,1905, Wild Westers and Carlisle Indian Industrial School portrayed contrasting images of Native Americans at the First Inaugural Parade of 26th President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School traveled with his wife and children, and for many years toured Europe and the United States with "Buffalo Bill's Wild West", Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and the Sells Floto Circus.

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was created with the explicit goal of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream European-American culture.

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All children who attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School were subjected to "militaristic regimentation and disciplines, " such as cutting of their hair, changing their dress, diets, names, and learning unfamiliar conceptions of space and time.

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Some returning Carlisle Indian Industrial School students had become ashamed of their culture, while some tried to pretend that they did not speak Lakota.

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43.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School was no longer willing to endure existence under the control of an overseer.

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Around 1913, rumors circulated at Carlisle that there was a movement to close the school.

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45.

US Army Heritage and Education Center, in Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, is the US Army's primary historical research facility.

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46.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School is remembered and honored by the people of the Borough of Carlisle.

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