Dissertation Research: Assimilation and Enculturation at Carlisle Industrial School

本项目涉及斯坦福大学一位文化人类学家的学位论文研究。该项目是为了分析卡莱尔印第安人工业学校的记录，卡莱尔印第安人工业学校是最早的为美国印第安人开设的非预留寄宿学校之一，于1879年至1918年在宾夕法尼亚州农村地区开办。该项目将侧重于学生的生活经历，这是通过学校记录和对美国三个地区校友后代的采访揭示的：南达科他州、新墨西哥州/亚利桑那州和纽约。该项目将研究学生群体如何随着家庭社区的社会条件随着时间的推移而变化。这项研究很重要，因为它将提供一个更全面的图景，了解一个国家塑造印度身份的制度。这项研究将产生的信息可以用在各种面向教育的材料中，展示印度人对国家认同的发展。在当代世界，苏联的解体与针对控制国家的种族暴力(即1994-95年俄罗斯对车臣人的暴力)联系在一起。我们对民族认同是如何根据国家政策而形成的理解的进步，可以帮助政策制定者避免在处理少数民族问题上犯错误。

This project involves the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist from Stanford University. The project is to analyze records from the Carlisle Indian Industrial school, one of the first non-reservation boarding schools for American Indians which operated in rural Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1918. The project will focus on the lived experience of pupils, as revealed through school records and interviews with descendants of school alumni in three regions of the country: S. Dakota, New Mexico/Arizona, and New York. The project will examine how cohorts of students changed as the social conditions of the home communities changed over time. This research is important because it will provide a more complete picture of an institution through which the state shaped Indian identity. The information the study will generate can be used in a variety of educationally oriented materials showing the development of Indian identity with respect to the state. In the contemporary world the demise of the USSR has been associated with ethnic violence against a controlling state (i.e., Russia against the Chechens in 1994-95). Advances in our understanding of how ethnic identities are formed in response to state policies can help policy makers avoid mistakes in dealing with ethnic minorities.