Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the standard for Indian assimilation in America and Canada.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first off-reservation boarding school established for Native American children in the United States, ushering in a dark legacy of oppression and violence ...

In the process, the novel embraces the interplay between oppression and narrative reclamation that has long been a vital dynamic in Sayles’s stories and films. Behind the camera, the two-time Academy ...

A plaque marks the entrance to the cemetery on the former grounds of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Roque Planas/HuffPost CARLISLE, Pa. — On Sept. 7, 1895, a group of 11 children and ...

Interviews with survivors and primary documents give accounts of violent cultural suppression under the guise of education, modeled after the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Overseen by Martinsburg resident Professor Philip Howard “P.H.” Bridenbaugh, the school had direct ties to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle. It was unique compared to the more ...

Film-maker John Sayles draws on astonishing people and events to portray acts of betrayal suffered by Native Americans ...