Carlisle Indian Industrial School by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC021000 Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
ISBN: 9780803295070
Publisher: Nebraska
Published: 2016-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 20. Kesetta and Jack “Smith” (Ndé/Lipan Apaches) in Kansas, 1880. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Jacqueline Fear-Segal.

Fig. 21. Kesetta and Jack “Lipan” (Ndé/Lipan Apaches) in Carlisle, 1880. Photo by John N. Choate. Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle PA. CS-CH-047.

Conducting a full medical examination of Kesetta on her arrival at Carlisle, staff discovered three large scars: one on her forehead and two on the front and back of her shoulder. When questioned, Kesetta reportedly told them these were left from wounds inflicted by a stone her mother had used to try to kill her, “so as to keep the white men from getting me in the fight.” Full details of this story were published in the school paper to exemplify, not the desperation and fear of a Lipan mother when confronting the U.S. Cavalry on the “day of screams,” but rather as evidence of Indian savagery on realizing the “result of the battle would be against them.”21

When Kesetta arrived in Carlisle, she was about thirteen years old. If she had remained with her Lipan Apache people, this would have been a very important time for her. An elaborate dance and feast would have been given as part of a ceremony to celebrate her womanhood in a sacred way. But Kesetta never wore the clothes specifically made for an Apache girl’s puberty ceremony nor listened to the women’s wisdom passed down to her by elders. Instead, she donned the regulation girls’ uniform of Carlisle and learned to drill and march.22

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