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The art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School

Established by an act of Congress in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in central Pennsylvania was conceived as a paramilitary residential boarding school that would solve the then-pressing "Indian Question" by forcibly assimilating and Americanizing Native American youth. A majo...

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Main Author: Mauro, Hayes Peter, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
Subjects and Genres:
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > History.
Indians of North America > Education > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > Ethnic identity > History.
Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History > Pictorial works.
Americanization > History.
Art > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
Photography > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
Propaganda > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
Racism in education > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The "savage" and antebellum science
  • Producing the Indian : indexing and pathologizing the Native American
  • Producing Americans : photography and indoctrination at Carlisle
  • Photography and indoctrination II : the before-and-after portrait
  • Publicizing the "civilized" savage.

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