Abstract
In 2012 Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted a symposium to confront the troubling history of the famed Carlisle Indian School (CIS). For the majority indigenous academics, artists, activists, and descendants who attended the symposium the gathering provided an opportunity to honor the memory of the children who endured relentless attempts at linguistic and cultural erasure during the thirty-nine years of the school's existence (1879–1918). Through multiple genres, including poetry and prayer, Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose's unique and poignant collection gives voice to multiple perspectives on the CIS experience. Resonating throughout the book are expressions of grief for the children who died at CIS and who, buried as Christians without their parents' knowledge, were denied traditional tribal rites. Three chapters focus on the cemetery at Carlisle, where nearly two hundred markers reveal a history that the school's propaganda apparatus aimed to hide from the public eye....