CARLISLE, Pa. — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S. government’s campaign to erase Native American tribes by wiping their children's identities.
This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows the 1892 student body of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School assembled on the school grounds in Carlisle, Pa.
From left, Lydia Gardner; Nannie Little Robe, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, who arrived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at about age 13, and Ethel Black Wolf pose for a studio portrait circa 1890.
This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds in March 1891 in Carlisle, Pa., wearing the clothing they arrived in.
In this photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, male students in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose for a photo in the tin shop with their instructor Richard Henry Pratt. From left are Charles Oheltoint, Richard Henry Pratt, Henry Roman Nose, Paul Black Bear, instructor J.H. Curtain, Ernest, and Koba.
This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows the 1892 student body of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School assembled on the school grounds in Carlisle, Pa.
From left, Lydia Gardner; Nannie Little Robe, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, who arrived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at about age 13, and Ethel Black Wolf pose for a studio portrait circa 1890.
This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds in March 1891 in Carlisle, Pa., wearing the clothing they arrived in.
In this photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, male students in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose for a photo in the tin shop with their instructor Richard Henry Pratt. From left are Charles Oheltoint, Richard Henry Pratt, Henry Roman Nose, Paul Black Bear, instructor J.H. Curtain, Ernest, and Koba.
