You can listen to this episode here:
Episode 16: Research Roundup | Carlisle Indian School Research Podcast (zencast.website)
We covered a lot of topics in this one. Here are links and images that relate to what we discussed.
(Just occurred to me that I should probably mention that in addition to his work with the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, Jim is also in charge of the archives of Dickinson College, which is why he’s telling stories about finding Indian School stuff when answering questions about the college.)
Former student Etta Batson with her husband and her sister Anona, who was on outing. Private collection.
Following up from last week, here are the mentions found by Cara Curtis of the Cumberland County Historical Society confirming that the bodies in the barracks’ “old cemetery” were moved prior to the opening of the school.
Carlisle Weekly Herald, July 13, 1871, p. 3
Carlisle Weekly Herald, September 7, 1871, p. 2.
Next we talked about the photo included at the top of this post, purchased by a researcher as being Carlisle-related. As noted, this appears to be the student Anona (Nana) Crow and her sister, former student, Etta Crow, while Anona was on outing at the home of her sister.
Nana Crow Student File | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu)
Etta Crow Student File | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu)
I think Jim didn’t include the detail that the researcher found the address of Etta’s house and then located it as it is today on Zillow and compared them. Looks like the same house!
Edward Marsden with four Alaskan students, 1893. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Photo Lot 06860100; NAA 73828.
Regarding the issue of people were were not students (as I would define a student) having student files or cards, here’s the example of Edward Marsden:
Edward Marsden Student File | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu)
Who wrote in a letter back to the school:
Very much as I would like to, I am sorry to say that I have never been a student of the Carlisle School. While I was attending college in Ohio between 1891 and 1898, I used to visit the Carlisle School quite often as I was very much interested in all that Captain Pratt did for the Indians at the time.
And here’s the example Jim noted of the person who sent an application but never showed up:
Following up on Jim’s story about how a Dickinson student’s question about the relationship between Dickinson’s current farm and the Carlisle Indian School’s farms was actually answered by sheer luck the very next day, in the report linked to above from 1906 you can zoom in on that map and it’s the Kutz farm that later ended up being owned by the College.
Next, here’s the link to Dr. John Bloom’s talk for the York County History Center, “The Imperial Gridiron: Masculinity, ‘Civilization,’ and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgOzAkusLUQ
And his book: To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools.
And, lastly, here’s the mention of student Howard Gansworth that Jim found in the Dickinson College student newspaper while looking for something else. We’ve confirmed that Gansworth was at this time enrolled as a student at Dickinson College.
And, as I noted at the end of the episode, if you haven’t already, I encourage you to buy my book about the history of the school, as demonstrated in photography:
