Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose

Welcome, with Seneca Thanksgiving Prayer “We Are One” by Peter Jemison (Seneca)

Part 1. A Sacred and Storied Place
1. The Stones at Carlisle
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)

2. Before Carlisle: The Lower Susquehanna Valley as Contested Native Space
Christopher J. Bilodeau

Part 2. Student Lives and Losses
3. Photograph: Carlisle Poem—Who Is This Boy?
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)

4. The Names
Barbara Landis

5. White Power and the Performance of Assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School
Louellyn White (Mohawk)

6. The Imperial Gridiron: Dealing with the Legacy of Carlisle Indian School Sports
John Bloom

7. Waste
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)

Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery
8. Cementerio indio
Eduardo Jordá
Translation by Mark C. Aldrich

9. The History and Reclamation of a Sacred Space: The Indian School Cemetery
Jacqueline Fear-Segal

10. Death at Carlisle: Naming the Unknowns in the Cemetery
Barbara Landis

Part 4. Reclamations
11. The Lost Ones: Piecing Together the Story
Jacqueline Fear-Segal

12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Ndé Memory
Margo Tamez (Ndé/Lipan Apache)

13. Sacred Journey: Restoring My Plains Indian Tipi
Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota)

14. Carlisle Farmhouse: A Major Site of Memory
Carolyn Tolman

Part 5. Revisioning the Past
15. Research Note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project
Malinda Triller Doran

16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Projects for Teaching
Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher

Part 6. Reflections and Responses
17. The Spirit Survives
Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache)

18. Response to Visiting Carlisle: Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma
Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota)

19. The Presence of Ghosts
Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)

20. A Sacred Space
Sharon O’Brien

21. Carlisle: My Hometown
Charles Fox

22. The Ndé and Carlisle: Reflections on the Symposium
Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Ndé/Lipan Apache)

Epilogue
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)

Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Published Resources for Researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Jacqueline Fear-Segal is a professor of American and Indigenous histories at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (Nebraska, 2007) and coeditor of Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming. Susan D. Rose is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College. She is the author of Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America and Challenging Global Gender Violence and coauthor of Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism.

Reviews

“By bringing together such a diverse range of voices—academics and non-academics, Native and non-Natives—to speak about the history and legacy of what remains the most well-known Indian boarding school, this book does us all a great service. The contributors share their important stories with exceptional grace, insight, and power.”—Stephen Amerman, professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University and author of Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000