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The Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples in Carlisle, PA

The Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples in Carlisle, PA

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At Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penna., we are witnessing a profound moment: the unveiling of the Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples rising just a mile from the grounds of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This space will center Indigenous knowledge-keepers, ceremony, art, healing, and scholarly inquiry, a place built on our stories, our communities, and our futures.

The building will also house the Sam G. Rose ’58 Art Gallery, honoring a remarkable alumnus whose generosity is helping to make this vision real. Together, these spaces will honor a past marked by erasure and transform it into a foundation for presence, belonging, and creative resurgence.

In this episode, Dr. Amanda Cheromiah reads Dickinson College’s official announcement and sits with its words — allowing them to breathe, deepen, and guide us toward what is unfolding in Carlisle.
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