$20 Million Gift Creates Jim Thorpe Center at Dickinson College, Marking Powerful Reckoning with Indian Boarding School History

CARLISLE, Pa., Oct. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a powerful act of healing and reclamation, Dickinson College will dedicate the Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples near the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School (CIIS)-the first federal off-reservation boarding school founded with the intent to "kill the Indian… save the man" through forced assimilation of…
Source: Red Lake Nation News