Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is a publicly accessible digital archive of material originating from or pertaining to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School that operated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918. The archival project has been undertaken by the Archives & Special Collections Department of the Waidner-Spahr Library at Dickinson College in Carlisle, and by the Community Studies Center at Dickinson College, with the help of numerous project partners including subject-area experts and cultural advisers. The project seeks to aggregate the disparate information from various sources locally and nationally into a single digital collection representing the complicated political and ethical issues surrounding the school as well as the lives of those Native Americans who studied there during its existence.
Mission.
The project is intended to be a comprehensive and searchable public archive of all available data regarding the school. Though official administrative documents are included in the collection, the curators have also sought out media owned by private organizations and individuals both locally and nationally, with a stated future goal of facilitating public submission of material to the archive for review and possible curation. The specific goals of the project have been defined as follows:
Scope of the Digital Resource.
Currently the digital resource center contains administrative documents associated with the students and instructors, images from the National Archives as well as private institutional archives and individuals, articles from and complete editions of campus publications, lists and rosters of students and rolls for various events and campus happenings, and administrative documents pertaining to the operation of the school. As of April 2017, the archive contains:
In addition to archival material, the project includes 9 premade lesson plans about the Carlisle Indian School, designed for both secondary and post-secondary classrooms. The project also links out to numerous additional resources, including both primary and secondary materials of a scholarly nature.
Copyright Status of Curated Media.
Media in the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.