Photograph of Jim Thorpe, Carlisle Indian School
This photograph is of Jim Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and gold medal鈥搘inning, multisport Olympic athlete. The photograph comes from Thorpe鈥檚 , which documents his time at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA, beginning in 1904. Learn more about Jim Thorpe from the 2012 blog post 鈥溾�� and the 2022 presentation 鈥�.鈥�
The 威尼斯人娱乐场 in Washington, DC, has student case files and other records created by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Carlisle was one of the first federally operated off-reservation boarding schools for Native Americans, and it played a pivotal role in shaping the federal government鈥檚 policy to assimilate Native Americans through boarding school education. Learn more about Carlisle Indian School records and other BIA headquarters records documenting the history of Native American boarding schools.
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