The Publications section features newspapers, magazines, and souvenir pamphlets that reflect the activities of the Carlisle Indian School and its students. Many of the newspapers and magazines included here, such as The Indian Helper and The Red Man, were produced at the school by the students themselves, who were developing the skills of printing and typesetting.
This section of the website does not include brochures, broadsides, or programs for public events. Shorter printed pieces such as these are found in the Documents section of the website.
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The first page opens with a poem titled "Patient Holding Out,” by Alice Carey. It is followed by sets of twenty-two rules of behavior titled “What a Girl Should Learn” and "What a Boy Should Learn.” The page ended with a paragraph about labor strikes. Page two features…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "Spring,” followed by "How a Pawnee Got Ahead of a Cheyenne Chief: A Story as told by one of our Boys," in which a U.S. congressman’s position was chastised using an analogy of a Cheyenne-Pawnee skirmish. There is also a blurb about…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "There's Danger," about the evils of drink. Next appears "In an Indian Camp: How to Cook Beans," adapted from the Cheyenne Transporter newspaper, about cleaning cooking utensils before using them. The article continues on page four. Page two includes "The…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "I'm Not Too Young" reprinted from Scattered Seeds. The next article, "Hoe Handle Medicine" extolls the medicinal effects of exercise. Page two features several small stories, including Paul Eagle Star's (Sioux) outing assignment, a piece describing…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled “Be Honest and True," followed by the story of "Two Gentlemen," who showed good manners, the page ends with news about the new girls’ quarters being built. Page two included news about a visit from the Cumberland County Medical Association, new machinery…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1886, containing the Seventh Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school…
Format: Book
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "English Speaking," that discouraged students from speaking their native languages. The page also includes an article titled "How Miss Fisher went to Call on the President's Wife," that described Mrs. Fracnces Cleveland's dress and the decor of White House…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
The first page opens with a poem titled "A Fourteen-Year-Old Girl's Good Advice," followed by an article called "The Menomonees and Pottawatomies Dance: A Story by Lucy Jordan, Stockbridge, a pupil from Wisconsin," that told of an 1882 visit by dancers to her home agency in Keshena, Wisconsin.…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "Sound Principle But Poor Poetry," followed by "A Boy Needs a Trade," about the degradation of a ditch digger reprinted from the Detroit Free Press. There is also an article called "A Sick Man who Wanted Whiskey." The second page includes a report in the…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center
The first page opens with a poem titled “"Health Alphabet" listing health advice, A-Z followed by a description of horse grooming titled "George Washington's Horse." Page two opens with an article titled "Silver" that…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "Much Depends on Your Aiming," about keeping to the straight path, followed by "A Boy Froze to Death While On Duty," about the effects of an ice storm on Lake Michigan followed by "Moved Again," in which the Man-on-the-band-stand opined that Indians who…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with the school Christmas greeting that included a drawing of the Man-on-the-band-stand that took up the entire front page of the newspaper. Page two features an article titled "Christmas" that described the Fourth of July and Christmas as national holidays, followed by…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "A Happy New Year to You," followed by a poem called "Santa Claus at Home," about his return to the North Pole. The next article, "The Cold Water Man," is about the dangers of drinking beer, reprinted from Maryland Bulletin. Also on the page is a piece…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with a poem titled "LA-MAH-NI," a story of an Indian man, followed by "A True Story About a Dog: Written for the Indian Helper" about a very smart dog. It continues on the fourth page. Page two includes small news items of national interest. There is a report that Jack…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
The first page opens with the poem, "New Every Morning" by Susan Coolidge, followed by "Good Words from a Blind Young Man," which was a typewritten letter sent by Joseph Link, student of the Institution of the Blind, to Charles Wheelock (Oneida). There is also an article reprinted from the…
Format: Newspapers
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
