Carlisle Indian Industrial School - in Media

In Media

  • Carlisle Indian Industrial School was depicted in the 1951 movie classic Jim Thorpe. Thorpe thrived under the football tutelage of equally legendary football coach Glenn S. "Pop" Warner.
  • Part of the 2005 mini-series on Turner Network Television, Into the West, takes place at the school.
  • The PBS documentary In the White Man's Image (1992) tells the story of Richard Pratt and the founding of the Carlisle School. It was directed by Christine Lesiak, and part of the series The American Experience.
  • The Dear America Series young adult fictional diary, My Heart is on the Ground by Ann Rinaldi, tells the story of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl sent to the school in 1889.
  • Numerous additional works works address the stories of former residents of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and other Native American boarding schools in Western New York and Canada, such as Thomas Indian School, Mohawk Institute Residential School (also known as Mohawk Manual Labour School and Mush Hole Indian Residential School) in Brantford, Southern Ontario, and Haudenosaunee boarding school; the impact of those and similar schools on their communities; and community efforts to overcome those impacts. Examples include: the film Unseen Tears: A Documentary on Boarding School Survivors, Ronald James Douglas' graduate thesis titled Documenting ethnic cleansing in North America: Creating Unseen Tears, and the Legacy of Hope Foundation's online media collection: "Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools".

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