Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Carlisle Indian Industrial School was inspired by a symposium held at Dickinson College in 2012, "Carlisle, PA: Site of Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations.” The book offers varied perspectives on the school by from the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and historians with research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and the complex legacies of a school that still touches the lives of many Native Americans. More than 10,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Carlisle, an experiment in forced assimilation, provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and served as a model for many residential schools in Canada.