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Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 by David Wallace Adams
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1995
Recently released in paperback, David Adams treats his subject thoroughly. Includes very good accounts of the personnel associated with the boarding schools of the period and lays out the events that led to the final demise of the Carlisle School. This book is a good basic Indian Education primer with a strong emphasis on the Carlisle School.
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Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families; 1900- 1940 by Brenda J. Child
Lincoln and London. University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Highly recommended—the latest and a welcome addition to the body of work coming out of the Indian voice.
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Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
New York: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 1983
The nineteenth century American West comes to life in an extraordinary narrative with compelling photographs. The chapter titled "The American Indians" is noteworthy, and the photographs of Indian children before and after they entered boarding schools in the East like the Carlisle School, are powerfully emblematic.
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Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences by The Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ, 2000
The institutional life of the boarding school is here depicted in personal accounts of struggle, resilence, faith in one's self and one's heritage.
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The Indian Industrial School: Carlisle, Pennsylvania 1870-1918 by Linda F. Witmer
Camp Hill, PA: Plank's Suburban Press. 1993
A photographic essay surveying the Indian School throughout the period. The book features hundreds of photographs and a 6,000 student-name index, compiled by Charles Maclay. With foreword by George P. Horse Capture, Sr. and notes on the Indian School. Photographs and Photographers by Richard Tritt, Photo Curator of the Cumberland County Historical Society. Reprinted in paperback 1999. Available for purchase by contacting CCHS, PO Box 626, Carlisle PA 17013. Tel: 717-249-7610.
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