Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt

Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide

1879-10-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt opens the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania under U.S. government authorization, establishing the blueprint for more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools nationwide designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children through cultural …

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