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Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 11, 2024

I was wondering if and when this would happen and I am glad it has: Yesterday, President Joe Biden designated the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument, a new national park site that tells the story of traumatic family separation and abuse at Native...

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This Day in Labor History: November 1, 1879

By Erik Loomis

On November 1, 2021

On November 1, 1879, the Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 493

By Erik Loomis

On June 23, 2019

This is the grave of Josiah Red Wolf. I had never heard of Josiah Red Wolf before stumbling upon his grave. But I want us to imagine his life, or.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 296

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 1, 2018

This is the grave of Richard Henry Pratt. Born in Rushford, New York in 1840, Pratt had a bit of a tough childhood. He survived smallpox in 1847. Then his father went to California as part of the gold rush, where he was murdered by...