Contemporary land restoration work is framed explicitly as undoing Carlisle’s damage.

Evidence

Tom walks over to the bookshelf and chooses a thick red volume to lay on the counter. The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle Pennsylvania. 1879–1918. In the back of the book is a list of names, pages and pages of them: Charlotte Bigtree (Mohawk), Stephen Silver Heels (Oneida), Thomas Medicine Horse (Sioux). Tom points to show me his uncle’s name. “That’s why we’re doing this,” he says, “undoing Carlisle.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 966

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘undoing Carlisle’ frame is the hinge claim tying land restoration to boarding-school trauma — connects directly to the assimilationist-violence threads of ch9 and ch63. — connects to: Industrial contamination at Akwesasne completed Carlisle’s severing of people from land — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 941; The grief and broken land-people link from Carlisle persists across generations. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 969