Boarding school voices : Carlisle Indian School students speak /

Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools' ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of colonialism, a specifiable source for the i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Krupat, Arnold (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:	United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Alumni and alumnae > Correspondence. Indian students > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > Biography. Off-reservation boarding schools > Pennsylvania > Carlisle. Boarding school students > United States > Correspondence. Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

Table of Contents:

"I talk white nicely" : The 1890 letters of returned Carlisle students
"I have always liked to write" : Selected writings of Mike Burns (Hoomothya)
"I am interested in my life" : further word from former students of Carlisle
"One of the most trusted members of the faculty" : Siceni Nori, some "successful" Carlisle Indians, and the 1914 Congressional hearings
Appendix: Carlisle students named in this book.