carlisleindian.dickinson.eduCarlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

Main menu Home Contact Mission Welcome The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country. Through these resources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students who were sent there. Recent News & Updates Winter Digitization Trip to the National Archives January 15, 2020 Several members of the Dickinson College Archives team recently returned from the latest in a series of digitization trips to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Library Digital Projects Manager Don Sailer '09 was joined by project consultant Blair Williams and volunteer Martavis Washington to scan administrative documents related to the operation of the Carlisle Indian School. The team is looking forward to discovering more about Carlisle through this records series. New Pupil Enrollment Records Now Online April 29, 2019 The is excited to announce that a new collection of enrollment records are now available online! The Descriptive Statements of Pupils were created during the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s to track groups of individuals sent or transferred to the Carlisle Indian School. This form would have typically been filled out by the agent or other government employee working at a particular agency or reservation, and then the form would have been sent along to Carlisle with the group of students. These forms were then forwarded along to Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. These records provide additional information about name variations, home addresses, health upon arrival, and other factors. These records are today held by the... Read more New Student Records Section Launched October 3, 2018 We are excited to announce a new and improved way of searching and browsing student records! The new Student Records page combines the best elements from our previous two pages, Student Files and Student Files (Advanced), into a seamless browse and search platform. Use the search box at the top right of the screen to find individual student records, or browse through over 15,000 records simultaneously using the Explore Student Records table further down the screen. The tabs running across the top of the screen provide even more browsing options, customized by Date of Entry ,... Read more Browse all News & Updates Posts Search All Search this site Find Student Records Images Publications Documents Lists & Ledgers Teaching Resources Cemetery Information Additional Resources About Contact Mission Project Participants Project Progress Visiting Carlisle Contact Archives & Special Collections Waidner-Spahr Library Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1399 cisproject@dickinson.edu Generous support for this project has been provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . Login...