Carlisle Indian School Research Podcast

This week Kate and Jim discuss what's been going on lately, including new acquisitions, walking tours and walking tour publications, a former student in the movies, a finding about Superintendent Mercer and outings, and an update on digitied materials from the Pratt papers at Yale. Show notes, including links and images, here: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2022/10/17/episode-25-research-activity-update This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

As noted at the beginning of this episode, Kate and Jim are discussing a murder-suicide of a former Carlisle student, and reading from newspaper accounts of the time which contain words and characterizations that may be offensive to some listeners. We don't get into graphic detail of the crimes, but listener discretion is advised. Show notes, including some of the newspaper clippings are available here: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2022/7/26/episode-24-a-tragic-true-crime-story This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Welcome to Season 2! We talk about our first visit to the Beinecke Library and our initial exploration of the Richard Henry Pratt Papers. We talk about what we did, the kinds of things we found, and all the things we want to get back to and explore some more. Show notes: [https://carlisle-indian-school-research.zencast.website/episodes/episode-23-our-exploration-of-the-richard-henry-pratt-papers] This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode Kate examines a book of Calisthenics Songs purchased by the school, and presumably used, in 1879. And we follow a research journey about a building on campus known as "The Cage." It's not as bad as it sounds. Show notes, including the images, are at https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/9/13/episode-22-calisthenics-and-the-cage-its-not-what-you-think This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week Kate and Jim review a selection of articles from newspapers across the country about the school published in January of 1880. Articles describe specifics about the school and the activities of the students as well as events on the national level regarding the education of Native Americans. You can find the shownotes for this episode, include parts of some of the articles discussed at https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/9/7/episode-21-from-the-newspapers-of-january-1880 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week Kate is on her own sharing some concerns about the process of deciding what Topic tags to apply to publications and documents on the Carlisle Indian School Digitial Resrouce Center site. She also reads some insightful sections from a book about the Holocaust and discusses how she applies similar approaches to her own work. The show notes for this episode are available at https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/7/20/episode-20-big-concepts This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week Kate and Jim briefly discuss some recent events including the announcement of the creation of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiave and the challenges that group will face. We then give an introduction to the reasons boarding schools were often seen as the most effective way of "civilizing" young Native Americans and what kinds of schools were already in place before Pratt founded Carlisle in 1879. Show notes at: carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/7/6/episode-19-introduction-to-native-american-schools-in-the-us This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, Kate and co-host Jim Gerencser discuss new resources about Chief Spotted Tail and the sons he sent to Carlisle and then quickly removed, as well as more resources about how outings worked, the progress being made on confirming the number of students who attended Carlisle, and the disinterments of deceased persons from the school cemetery which are taking place this summer. Link to the show notes for more info: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/6/8/episode-18-research-roundup This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Kate and Jim do their first "mythology busting" episode and compare the stories and details of the available documentary sources about the gathering of the first students to come to Carlisle.

Lots of interesting stuff from our research this week! This week, Kate and Jim discuss a LOT of discoveries they made this past week including a photo that led to an interesting example of a student on outing, uncovering people who have documentation as students but who actually never were enrolled, a Dickinson college-CIIS connection that Jim didn't know about before, and a link to an interesting talk about the football program at the school. Show notes: Episode 16: Research Roundup This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

An audio tour of the buildings used by the school when it first opened in 1879. This week Kate and Jim discuss the buildings that were remaining on the grounds from the Army's Carlisle Barracks, their condition, and how they were adapted and used by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School when it first opened in 1879. Show notes, including images, are at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/3/29/episode-15-tour-of-the-school-grounds-in-1879 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Why my brain is exploding with possibilities this week. This week Kate explains why there's no proper new episode this week because of all the other interesting research activity, including exploring information on students and updating information about those places in other places online. Show notes with links: This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, Kate is once again joined by Jim Gerencser to begin to explore the incoming correspondece files from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In this episode we are focusing on the difficulties the school's founder, Richard Henry Pratt, had in obtaining needed supplies and funds as the school opened. Show notes for this episode: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/3/9/episode-13 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, Kate goes solo and gives an update on what's been crossing her desk this past week, including books to read, new photos, old photos, and considering organizational software. Show notes at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/3/3/episode-12-research-roundup This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, Kate is joined again by Jim Gerencser to review some of the content about the Carlisle Indian School in a selection of newspapers from 1879--the year the school was founded. You can find the shownotes here: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/2/23/episode-eleven-newspapers-from-1879 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Reviewing what documentation is available for years 1879 and 1880 This week, host Kate Theimer and resident expert Jim Gerencser discuss what documentation about the school and its students is available for the years 1879 and 1880. Show notes available at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2021/2/16/episode-ten-early-documentation-1879-1880 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode Kate welcomes guest Frank Vitale who gives a overview of the history of medicine at the Carlisle Indian School, including how students were treated, what the most common ailments were, and many references to "we really need to give that topic an episode of its own!" Shownotes here: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/4/22/episode-nine-an-introduction-to-medicine-at-the-school-with-guest-frank-vitale This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode I give an overview of how church attendance figured into the lives of students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and role I think it played in the school's goal of assimilation. To see the images and find links to more information go to: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/3/23/episode-eight-local-churches-and-the-indian-school This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, I discuss some of the discoveries I made while working with thousands, yes, thousands, of images of Carlisle Indian School subjects. Just a couple of high-level observations about photographer J.N. Choate's process. To see the images and find links to more information go to: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2020/2/6/episode-seven-lets-talk-glass-plate-negatives This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode I discuss the Native people who originally lived in the Carlisle area, the history of the Carlilse Barracks, and a bit about what Carlisle would have been like in 1879 when the first students arrived. See the show notes at https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/12/6/episode-six-carlisle-before-carlisle This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week I answer a question received via Facebook about a specific student: Ulysses G. Paisano. In doing so I share a deep-ish dive into the kinds of documentation we have connected to him, as well as exploring the information about him in the student newspapers. UPDATED with information that I overlooked. Because sometimes I'm just a careless idiot. Let's hope not most of the time. To learn more, visit the show notes for the episode at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/11/19/episode-five-researching-ulysses-g-paisano This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode I sort of answer the questions "how young was the youngest student?" and "how young were the students generally?" So, you'll get some numbers and some stories. And some photos if you check out the show notes at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/11/13/episode-four-the-youngest-student Thanks for listening! This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode I share my research about the family, youth, and military career of Richard Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle Indian School. For complete show notes visit: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/10/25/episode-3-youth-and-military-career-of-richard-henry-pratt This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this episode Kate reads some newspaper and first person accounts of the arrival of the first students at the school and share some information about the photographs taken of the first group. You can find complete show notes for this episode at: https://carlisleindianschoolresearch.com/podcast/2019/10/2/episode-1-the-arrival-of-the-first-students This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This is super-brief introduction to what I hope this podcast will be about and my background and approach for researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.