This channel is focused on art because of the Carlisle Indian School. Channel founders, Margaret Brostrom and George Cooley are visual artists but any art form related to Carlisle is welcome. Further, any contributions claiming Carlisle connections are encouraged.
The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. The school's founder and longtime diretor, Richard Henry Pratt, creaated the motto, “Kill the Indian, save the man;” a mentality which was then applied to the cultural assimilation efforts of the larger American Indian boarding school system. Assimilation efforts included forcibly removing Native Americans from their families, converting them to Christianity, preventing them from learning or practicing indigenous culture and customs, and living in a strict military fashion – in another word – genocide.