You thought this was never going to happen, didn’t you? You thought we were gone forever, but not so! Welcome to what I’m calling Season Two, since we’ve had such a long hiatus.
Here’s a discussion of our first trip to the Beinecke Library Yale to start digging into the Richard Henry Pratt Papers. Listen here:
Notes for this episode:
So, here’s what I refer to as“the site”—the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.
Here’s the Pratt papers finding aid.
Here’s an example of two pages from one of the letterpress books, a letter from Pratt.
Correction—Noticed that at one point when I’m talking about the Native Americans held at Fort Marion, I said they were former prisoners of war. My misspeaking—they were prisoners of war while they were being held there.
Photo of a polished sea bean from the collection:
Sample of letter with info crossed out, as we talked about:
