'Historians have been too slow to collaborate with librarians and archivists,' writes Beth DeBold in #AHAPerspectives . 'We will all benefit if we are able to know one another better, and make arguments across professional roles for each other’s value.' historians.org/publications-a…

They were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names? beta.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…

In an era before television, newsreels at cinemas were a primary means of spreading news. Carlisle's students were featured in a reel by the Gaumont company, which filmed the school's Olympic athletes as well as a student singing in sign language! carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/documents/film…

'Archives at Dickinson College and the Cumberland County Historical Society have assisted in proving a connection between students and living family members, as well as locating remains' #INDIGENOUS Dickinson College CCHSCarlislePA @dsonlibrary #repatriation witf.org/news/2018/05/a…

The NHPRC-funded project at Dickinson College WaidnerSpahr Library has a select number of free teaching kits available for schoolteachers incorporating the history of the Carlisle Indian School into their curriculum. More info here: carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/news/carlisle-… #DsonArchives #INDIGENOUS NABS Healing Coalition

Prayers for the Repatriation of these ancestors from Blackfeet, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Wind River next month. cumberlink.com/news/local/his…

Army announces plans to exhume bodies of four Carlisle Indian School students in June via The Sentinel #INDIGENOUS #CarlisleIndianSchool #repatriation cumberlink.com/news/local/his…

Fire destroys Carlisle Barracks mess hall - goo.gl/alerts/q11wK #GoogleAlerts Building was #carlisleindianschool dining hall before 1919. Here's a postcard showing interior & exterior during those yrs. Did not know there was a dorm floor. Virtual tour Wed CCHSCarlislePA FREE

photos.app.goo.gl/QDbbGOAEpQwsto… Endnote 93 from images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/97803077… citing carlisleindian.dickinson.edu

From Killers of the Flower Moon - endnote citing George Bigheart's student folder in the Dickinson College digitization project. Carlisle Students CIIS History CCHSCarlislePA

Digitization work is happening with the Genoa Indian School records! dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-profe…

An important documentary about last year's repatriation is making good progress! contentlabmedia.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/hom…

According to CIIS founder Richard H. Pratt, after the 1893 World's Fair items from CIIS' exhibit were purchased by an English educator operating a Zulu school in South Africa. This apparently included a CIIS-made wagon. Does anyone know what school Pratt might be talking about?

Rest In Peace Mitchell Bush, president of AIS and descendant of two CIIS survivors, who frequently blessed and honored those buried in the school cemetery twitter.com/IndianCountry/…

Throughout the years, lecturers frequently visited CIIS. Their topics included telegraphy, experimental psychology, Japanese culture, American history, 'moral hygiene', Christianity, photography, and more. Lectures were often recounted in the school's newspapers and magazines.

In 1918, Carlisle's industrial equipment were going to be used in 'the reeducation of soldiers physically disabled in the war.' That, plus the fact that the campus 'can be speedily used for hospital purposes', were cited as reasons for its closure and transfer to the War Dept.

Central PA Conservancy has acquired a farm settled by James LeTort, who was involved in local Susquehannock trading in the 1700s. By the late 1800s, Susquehannocks were totally dispossessed of lands in the area, and then sent there to be educated at CIIS. cumberlink.com/news/local/cen…

From 1918 Annual Report of the BIA, regarding the school's closure: 'The educational system of the Indian Department will not suffer... as the student body has been considerably depleted by enlistments in the Army and Navy...'