December 2010
26 posts
“Carlisle’s founder, army officer Richard Henry Pratt, summed up the key to “civilizing” the Indian: “Kill the Indian and save the man.”…Encouraged by his experiences with the Hampton group, Pratt lobbied the federal government to support a federal school at Carlisle, with the goals of assimilating and acculturating Indian children by removing them from their families and communities and...
