CARLISLE - The arc of history bent a little bit here Saturday, and hopefully for the good.

An assembly of Native American visitors, Dickinson College leaders and curious Carlislers assembled to bless ground that will someday play host to the new Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples.

“We should not just come build on this site here at Dickinson. We should speak to it first and explain our intentions,” architect Johnpaul Jones wrote in a blessing presented at Saturday’s ceremony.

“We are making a pact with a living thing, giving it a new purpose. We ask the site not to be angry when we dig in it and remove earth. And thank it for its sacrifice.”

Jones, the lead design consultant for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. and himself of Native Americ

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