“We're not by any means assimilated to the point that the government wanted us to be assimilated.”
Patty Talahongva, Curator of the Pheonix Indian School Visitor Center
“This is American history, not just Native American history."
Christine Diindiisi McCleave, exhibit adviser and executive officer for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Four male Sioux students [version 1], c.1879
Carlisle Indian School
Cumberland County Historical Society
Carlisle Indian School , 1879, First Male Students
Group portrait of first male students at the school from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies. They arrived on October 6, 1879. Richard Henry Pratt is standing at far left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at far right.
Photographer: John N. Choate, Carlisle, PA
Cumberland County Historical Society
Carlisle Indian School, 1879, First Female Students
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right.
Photographer: John N. Choate, Carlisle, PA
Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Hugh (Running Horse) wearing school uniform, c.1880
Photographer: John N. Choate, Carlisle, PA
Cumberland County Historical Society
"Dreams for the Future,"
A bronze sculpture by Allan Houser, displayed at The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in "Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories." [ MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times ]
The American Indian Past. Present , c 1906
Print shows two caricatures of Native Americans: a war dance of the past and a football game of the present; a Carlisle Indian School pennent flies from a pole in the stands.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Chemawa Indian School Cheerleaders, circa 1949
Oregon Historical Society
Peter Casey and Edward Green, Chemawa track and field, 1906.
Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib.
Boys at the Chemawa Indian School. c. 1900
Oregon Historical Society
Girls weaving on looms at the Chemawa Indian School, 1937
Oreg. Hist. Soc. Research Library