Luke Prior ’22
Rebranding the Native: Selling the ‘Ideal’ Indigenous Worker at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918
Luke Prior ’22, History/Secondary Education
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Orquiza, History and Classics
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School sought to recreate the image of the Native American from the savage brute of the past and the lazy free-loader who lived off the government ration to an ‘ideal’ worker who was a productive member of the American economy. In doing so, the school stripped students of their cultures and replaced them with American ideals. A very small minority of those at Carlisle used what they learned to fight against the assimilationist mission of the school.
Presentation: Thursday, April 28, 2:15 p.m.
