Dissertation Research: Assimilation and Enculturation at Carlisle Industrial School

本项目涉及一位来自斯坦福大学的文化人类学家的博士论文研究。 该项目将分析卡莱尔印第安工业学校的记录，该学校是1879年至1918年在宾夕法尼亚州农村开设的第一所美国印第安人非保留地寄宿学校之一。 该项目将侧重于学生的生活经验，这是通过学校记录和对该国三个地区校友后代的采访所揭示的：S。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社会条件的变化而变化。 这项研究很重要，因为它将提供一个更完整的图片，通过国家塑造印度身份的机构。 这项研究将产生的信息可以用于各种面向教育的材料，显示印度身份的发展相对于国家。 在当代世界，苏联的灭亡与反对控制国家的种族暴力有关（即，1994- 1995年俄罗斯对车臣的战争）。 我们对民族身份如何在国家政策下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时犯错误。

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.