Beyond Carlisle: The Martinsburg Indian School and Pennsylvania’s Lesser-Known Boarding School

Name: Beyond Carlisle: The Martinsburg Indian School and Pennsylvania’s Lesser-Known Boarding School
Start: 2025-10-13T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 21 N Pitt St, Carlisle, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17013

Schedule

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

21 N Pitt St, Carlisle, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17013 | Carlisle, PA

Beyond Carlisle: The Martinsburg Indian School and Pennsylvania’s Lesser-Known Legacy of Boarding Schools
The Carlisle Indian School is Pennsylvania’s best-known Indian School, but it is not the Commonwealth’s only. The Martinsburg Indian School (1885-1888) is a rare example of a religiously unaffiliated, for-profit Indian boarding school. Established at the beginning of federal efforts to assimilate Indigenous youth through education, Martinsburg reflects trends within the Boarding School Movement including political battles, curricula, and student and parental resistance. This largely forgotten school reveals new information about the early years of the Boarding School Movement, especially when compared to the Carlisle Indian School. Join Frank Vitale, University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Millersville University of Pennsylvania as he shares this history with us.
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