Cathy
[Crossposted from H-NET Western History Discussion List H-WEST
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>Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995
>From: sandra kathryn mathews-lamb <skmlamb@carina.unm.edu>
You might check into _To Live on This Earth: American Indian Education_ by
Estelle Fuchs and Robert J. Havinghurst (introduction by Margaret
Connell-Szasz) (Albuquerque; UNM Press, 1983). Also, you might contact M.
Connell-Szasz at the Dept of History, UNM, Albuquerque, NM 87131...she's
done a LOT of work on Indian Education and could prove to be a helpful
source of information.
Sandra Mathews-Lamb
skmlamb@carina.unm.edu
Dept of History
U of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995
>From: Kathryn A Abbott <kabbott@history.umass.edu>
The Carlisle Indian school curriculum focused on basic
grammar-school-level academics and extensive trade training. The school
itself offered training in printing, blacksmithing, carpentry for boys and
so-called domestic training for girls. There was an emphasis placed on
sports. As you are probably aware, the school emphasized its English-only
curriculum and citizens' dress. Perhaps the most significant aspect of
the curriculum was the outling system, whereby students spent the summer
living with and working for white families near Carlisle, in the hopes of
accelerating the assimilation of Carlisle's students. You might want to
look at Michael C. Coleman _American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930_
(1993), or at relevant material in Francis Paul Prucha, _The Great Father:
The United States Government and the American Indians_ (2 vols., 1984,
1986). As for records relating to the curriculum, you might start with
the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see if there is anything
there. Also check the Union List of Manuscripts in your library to find
out where Richard Pratt's papers are collected.
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>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995
>From: MMKELLY@MERLIN.NLU.EDU
Paula, the best book I know on the Carlisle School is *Battlefield and
Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904*, by Richard
Henry Pratt., ed. with the annotations by Bob Utley. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1964. Reissued by University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
It's a terrific book, and so interesting.
Carla Kelly
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>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95
>From: George Miles <GOMILES@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu>
A basic starting point on Pratt's curriculum would be his posthumously
published autobiography "From Battlefield to Classroom" edited by Robert
Utley and published by the Yale University Press in the 1960s. I don't
know whether it remains in print, but I think Nebraska may have issued a
paperback version a "few" years ago.
Pratt's papers are housed in the Yale Collection of Western Americana.
They include typed and handwritten versions of many of his speeches and
magazine articles concerning the school and its curriculum. The finding
aid (box and folder list) for the Pratt papers is fairly detailed and most
of the speeches, etc are identified by title. A machine-readable copy of
the list can be found on the Yale University Gopher (whose internet name
is YALEINFO.CIS.YALE.EDU). From the main menu of the Yale Gopher, chose
Yale Libraries, then Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, then
Manuscript & Archival Collections, and finally Western Americana
Collection. You may browse or - if your local software supports it -
download the file to your own machine.
As a piece of general information, the Yale Gopher contains the full texts
of ALL Beinecke Library Archival and Manuscript Finding Aids, organized by
collection. We hope the install a pointer from the H-WEST gopher at the
University of Illinois at Chicago that will allowe users of the H-WEST
gopher to move directly to the Beinecke files. More on this later this
month.
A final word on the Pratt papers at Yale: I don't believe that we have a
master negative for ALL of the Pratt Collection, but much of his
correspondence has been filmed and copies of the positive micro-film are
available at $30 per reel (There are about 800 to 1000 frames per reel).
Please respond to me directly for further information.
George Miles
Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
E-MAIL - Gomiles@YaleVM.CIS.Yale.edu
PHONE - 203-432-2958
FAX - 203-432-4047