Industrial Training

The day was divided in two different parts; education and industrial training. The morning started with typical classes and the afternoon was divided, with boys doing physical labor outside and girls doing housework inside. The boys built the cottages that are located on the old property of the Carlisle Indian School. 

The girls learned how to cook, clean, sew, care for poultry, and do laundry. The girls did the laundry for the whole boarding school. The boys learned Blacksmithing, shoemaking, and farming. There was such a focus on this industrial training because the staff at the schools wanted the children to be marketable for a job after they finish school. However, this was basically child labor and extremely dangerous.