Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations staff pick original song written and performed

original song written and performed by Robbie Robertson

he uses his extensive experience in traditional Lakota wisdom to propose a return to traditional tribal values and to outline a plan for a hopeful future

They marvel at the colors and sounds

who gained notoriety as an artist through his emotionally revealing portraits of his wife—work that is adoring

pre-professional women ethnologists would claim Indians as a special political cause

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations staff pick original song written and performedThe Carlisle Indian School (18791918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the schools founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white mans ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom. More than 10,500 children from virtually every