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Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing.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 ills that beset Native communities today. But the fuller story is one not only of suffering and pain, loss and abjection, but also of ingenious agency, creative syntheses, and unimagined adaptations.
Although tragic for many students, for others the Carlisle experience led to positive outcomes in their lives. Some published short pieces in the Carlisle newspapers and others sent letters and photos to the school over the years. Arnold Krupat transcribes selections from the letters of these former students literally and unedited, emphasizing their evocative language and what they tell of themselves and their home communities, and the perspectives they offer on a wider American world. Their sense of themselves and their worldview provide detailed insights into what was abstractly and vaguely referred to as "the Indian question." These former students were the oxymoron Carlisle superintendent Richard Henry Pratt could not imagine and never comprehended: they were Carlisle Indians.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "I talk white nicely": The 1890 Letters of Returned Students from Carlisle
2. "I have always liked to write": Selected Writings of Mike Burns (Hoomothya)
3. "I am interested in my life": Further Words from Former Students of Carlisle
4. "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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
