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Looks at the life and work of poet, Marianne Moore at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Role of Moore's tenure at the school and her residency in Carlisle on shaping her aesthetic and transforming her into a mature poet; Relationship to indigenous American culture and history; Reflections of her experiences in the poems "Like a Bulrush," "To an Intra-Mural Rat" and "You are Like the Realistic Product of an Idealistic Search for Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow".

The article presents a segment of nineteenth century U.S. history, the 1909 establishment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at a military base in Pennsylvania through the efforts of Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt. He held the conviction that Indians could be assimilated into the white population if they were educated and treated with sympathy and kindness.

The article features Plenty Kill of the Oglala Lakotas, who later became Luther Standing Bear of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The school was owned by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt. It claims that Plenty Kill was born at the Great Sioux Reservation (now South Dakota) in late 1868 from Chief Standing Bear and Pretty Face.

The article focuses on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania which was attended by tribal students and also discusses aim of its founder to provide Euro-American culture to children, development of searchable database and time period in which he attended school.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues such as the support for the initiative to save the historic Farmhouse of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the Great American Cleanup events to be conducted by the Keep America Beautiful on Earth Day.

The article reports on the effort of Ellen Pfeiffer, a Jamestown resident, in designing and sewing a quilt in remembrance of students of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania who had passed away. It states that these students traveled from across the U.S. to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School to learn foreign culture. It notes that the quilt sewn represent of a child whose gravestone resides at the school last called home.

The article focuses on athlete Jim Thorpe known to the Sac and Fox tribe as Wathashcohuk who studied at Carlisle Indian industrial School in Pennsylvania. Accordingly, Thorpe has competed in 15 events, won 8 of them, and become the first and only man ever to win both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon. It states that as students of the Indian School, Thorpe, together with runner Louis Tewanima, have been considered to be wards of the nation. It also mentions that Thorpe has defeated the whole Lafayette track team on a watershed day in 1909.

Provides information on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Features of the museum dedicated to the Indian school; Number of students enrolled in the Indian school; Death of several children in the Indian school.

Focuses on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Move of the Cumberland County Historical Society to dedicate a portion of its museum to the Indian school; Reason for the establishment of the Indian school in 1879; Athletes from the Indian school who became popular.