The Imperial GridironFinalist for the 2023 NASSH Anthologies Book Award The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the schools original superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt believed that Native