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- Title
Adapting Against Assimilation: Recovering Anishinaabe Student Writings in Carlisle Indian School Periodicals, 1904–1918.
- Authors
Morrow, Julie
- Abstract
Carlisle Indian School was a federal boarding school in Pennsylvania which operated between 1879-1918 aiming to strip Native American youth of their Indigenous culture and assimilate them with Anglo-American society. To promote this work and attract sponsors, Carlisle authorities published periodicals which occasionally featured essays, legends, and stories authored by its students. Between 1904-1918, 94 articles written by students of the Anishinaabe nation were published. Anishinaabe student-authors adapted the propagandist platform into a vehicle to proudly display their developing cross-cultural identities. Their writing demonstrates their enduring connection to Anishinaabe lands, communities, and cultures. Students undermined Carlisle’s agenda by demonstrating that their culture was not vanishing but had continued to adapt to new cultural contexts.
- Subjects
CARLISLE (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; ANISHINAABE (North American people); AMERICANS; INDIGENOUS youth; NATIVE Americans; YOUTH culture; PERIODICAL publishing
- Publication
Australasian Journal of American Studies, 2021, Vol 40, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
1838-9554
- Publication type
Article