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A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System
Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her ...
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This football team shows what we lose when we ignore our real history
It resides in the personal collection of a long-dead man named Gus Welch, who played in the backfield with his best friend, Jim Thorpe, for the Carlisle Indian School football team of 1911-12 ...
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A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System
The first federally run Indian boarding school, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was founded in 1879, on the site of former army barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Carlisle’s founder ...