Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her ...

From 1879 to 1918, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the flagship operation of federally funded, off-reservation ...

This park site tells the story of traumatic family separation and abuse at Native American boarding schools across the country. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first off-reservation ...

Extra History Kill the Indian, Save the Man - Carlisle Boarding School Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: April 16, 2025 Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the ...

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

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 ...

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 ...