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This article proposes embodied and multimodal readings of student compositions from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a way to illuminate processes of assimilation and resistance. Drawing on Gerald Vizenor s concept of survivance and the ways that the field of composition has taken up Vizenor s work, I argue that the project remains incomplete if we confine our history of cultural rhetoric to resistant, individual, alphabetically literate voices as the sites of rhetorical sovereignty and rhetorics of survivance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the case of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania's libraries and reading culture during the period 1879-1918.

The article discusses the football program at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1904 and the instruction of white standards and concepts of manhood to the male students. The article details the origins of the school and how the white founders intended to systematically deconstruct students' Native American culture and replace it with white standards and beliefs. The connection between manhood and sports is analyzed. The author examines the education students received in the context of the school's assimilation policy and how this is connected to the football team's models of manhood.

The article analyzes archival Carlisle school newspapers to demonstrate how the institution used news representations of athletics and recreation to foster assimilationist aims. The article argues that athletics and recreation were imbued with different meanings for the various constituencies, all of whom used athletics and recreation to construct identities, express emotions, and struggle over the politics of assimilation. The conjuncture of Carlisle's athletic programs and the growth of sports coverage resulted in representations of Indian athletes within the context of a racial ideology that portrayed the Indian as both a noble and primitive savage whose instinctive abilities and cunning allowed him to compete against whites despite a lack of scientific training. In the process, a modern bicultural athletic world came into being, but it was not destined to last. The very cultural system that had supported Indian athletes in the early twentieth century was transformed in ways that rendered Indian athletes invisible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a manuscript by Indian Howard Gansworth which detailed his first days at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Experiences in the boarding school; Involvement of Gansworth in Indian affairs; Problems faced by the student in school.

Profiles Indian artist and teacher Angel DeCora. Engagement with approaches to Indian art; Career background; Collection by traders of Indian artifacts; Suppression of Indian culture; Legacy to Indian art.