Why do you think many student records contain almost no information?

homework 1:
Go to carlisleindian.dickinson.edu (Links to an external site.) and search for the names of students who arrived at the school on October 21, 1882. Here (Links to an external site.) is a direct link to that date’s records.

Look at the student files of three students who arrived Oct. 21, 1882.
Once you click on a student record page, click “Read Documents” for a PDF copy of the student’s records. These scanned records may include student ID cards, report cards, and student surveys that they filled out after leaving the school.
[NOTE: The documents are often written in cursive. Try your best to read them, but it’s okay if you can’t decipher it all!]
3.
After exploring their files, write a short summary of what you discovered about at least ONE student. Some questions to consider:
Where are they from? Did they have relatives at the school? How long did they attend? Did they fill out the student survey? Do we know anything about their life after leaving Carlisle?
Reflect on the experience of conducting this research.
Was it frustrating?
Were you surprised by how few students filled out the survey card?
Why do you think many student records contain almost no information?
Homework 2:
Discussion For this discussion, you will write a post engaging with two types of secondary sources:
An NPR article/radio segment called “American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many (Links to an external site.).” I highly encourage you to listen to the audio recording (which is transcribed in the article). [Note: there are primary source images throughout and excerpts of US government reports at the bottom of the page.]

This video from Democracy Now that depicts the return of 10 Carlisle students’ remains to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and interviews a Lakota leader of the Sicangu Youth Council, Christopher Eagle Bear. If you’re short on time, watch at least the first five minutes of the video:

After reading/listening to NPR segment and watching the video above, respond to at least three of the following questions in a discussion post (approx. 250 words):
How do students who attended American Indian boarding schools recall their experiences in the NPR article?

How do indigenous youth such as Christopher Eagle Bear view these schools today?

Reflect on the readings and research you previously completed on the Carlisle School. Does reading this article and watching the video change your perspective on these schools at all?

Is there one story that sticks out to you from this article or video, or the earlier readings/research you did on the subject of Indian boarding schools?

Why do you think Native Americans like Christopher Eagle Bear and Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland advocate for “repatriating” or returning the remains of victims of these schools to the their tribes?

What are your reactions to Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland’s announcement that the federal government is going to launch the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative (Links to an external site.) to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences of these schools”?

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