Out of Print Book: Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Indigenous Histories, Memories, & Reclaimations)

Editor(s): Jacqueline Fear-Segal & Susan D. Rose
Book Details: hardcover with dust jacket, 2016, 399 pages

This out of print book is in relatively good condition.  The dust jacket is intact with little shelf wear and the blue cloth hardcover and pages are also in relatively good condition with little wear and tear.

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.