FEATURES
All Tribes Watchmen House of Prayer
A place to continually lift up worship and intercession for the First Nations Tribes of Turtle Island and the Tribal Nations of the earth
The Arrows School of Ministry
The Arrow School carries a mandate to equip 10,000 Arrows of Glory champions of the faith to advance the Kingdom of God throughout Turtle Island and the Nations of the earth
The New Home of The Shalom Center
“One New Man” spiritual community called to equip and launch people into their destinies. We offer a presence led environment with expressions of prophetic worship & art in the developing of spiritual gifts.
New Home of The Rapha House
The Rapha House is a Healing Ministry. Rapha means “to heal” in Hebrew. We desire to see many continue to come and be healed emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. We are an official registered Bethel Sozo Healing Center that has been open to the public since November 2, 2017.
OTHER KEY FEATURES
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Community Service Resource Center for downtown Carlisle.
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Marketplace coaching and training.
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Musical training.
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Creative arts projects for all ages.
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Non-Medical senior in home care services to the underserved.
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Community outreaches for all ages.
Other services to be developed based upon
the needs of the community
HOW TO DONATE
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If choosing to honor a First Nations child buried in the US Army War College Cemetery by engraving their name on a brick for the Nehemiah Walkway, please CLICK HERE
A DONATION OF ANY SIZE IS APPRECIATED IN HELPING US FULFILL OUR DREAM IN CARLISLE.
ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
MORE INFO
For approximately three decades beginning in the latter part of the 19th century, the federal government, in an effort to "tame the savage" and assimilate them into the dominant white culture, uprooted close to a million American Indian children from their reservation tribal homes, transporting them thousands of miles across the country to boarding schools.
Max Spotted Tail (left), a Sioux boy from Rosebud, South Dakota, was among the more than 10,000 American Indian youth who were taken from their families and forced to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle in the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century.
The children were stripped of all vestiges of tribal traditions. Their native names were changed to European names and they were forced to adopt the traditions of white America, including language, dress and faith traditions.
Between 1879 and 1918, more than 10,000 American Indian children were housed at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the federal government's flagship boarding school based on a strict military model. The school's sprawling campus, surrounded by Cumberland County's bucolic farmland, featured wide open sports fields, a gymnasium, classroom buildings and dormitories.
Nearly 200 of the children perished at the school, most from diseases like tuberculosis or consumption. Their remains were never returned to their families. The children's final resting place is on the grounds of what used to be the boarding school and is now part of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle.
Near the main gate of the barracks along Claremont Road, white headstones laid out in rows mark the graves of those children. Many of the headstones bear names but no birth or death dates. They are decorated with the small stuffed animals, dreamcatchers, toys and pinwheels left by visitors.
Now, some 135 years later, members of some of the tribal nations have mounted an effort to return the remains of their children to their ancestral lands.
First Sioux girls arrive at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on Oct. 6th, 1879.
On Tuesday, leaders of the Rosebud Sioux, Northern Arapaho, Cheyenne River Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Standing Rock Sioux and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribes will meet in Rosebud, South Dakota with representatives from the federal government and the U.S. Army to begin negotiations over the repatriation of the children's remains.