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"Kill the Indian in him, and save the man": R. H. Pratt on the ...

This resource includes the full text from Captain Richard Henry Pratt's speech in which he used the now well-known phrase to describe his philosophy of ...

“Kill the Indian, save the man”: Remembering the stories of Indian ...

Between 1,500 and 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the school in Carlisle, Penn., according to Jim Gerenscer, co-director of the Carlisle ...

Kill the Indian, Save the Man - Wikipedia

Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools is a 2004 book by the American writer Ward Churchill, ...

Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans

Not surprisingly, such schools often met fierce resistance from Native American parents and youth. But the schools also fostered a sense of shared Indian ...

How Boarding Schools Tried to 'Kill the Indian' Through Assimilation

Native American tribes are still seeking the return of their children.

“Kill the Indian, Save the Man:” An Introduction to the History of ...

Recently, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition published the second edition of Healing Voices Volume 1, ...

'Kill the Indian, Save the Man': The U.S. Wrestles With Its Role in ...

30, on what some Indigenous communities and their supporters are calling the National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, or ...

Carlisle Indian School - Digital History

In 1879, an army officer named Richard H. Pratt opened a boarding school for Indian youth in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His goal: to use education to uplift ...

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education ...

They came from the farthest corners of the United States and its territories: Thousands of American Indian children, some barely teens, boarded trains, ...

Killing the Indian in the Child | Facing History & Ourselves

Learn about the goal of assimilation held by many in colonial Canada and its influence on the creation of the Indian Residential Schools system.

Kill the Indian, Save the Man | Pennsylvania Center for the Book

A Civil War veteran named Richard Henry Pratt believed that the Indians could become a contributing part of the population through education.

Native American Boarding Schools Took Children's Culture, and ...

New research reveals the vast scope of the Native American boarding school system, which for more than a century removed Native children ...

Genocide, kill the Indian and save the man | University of Nevada ...

The recent discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children, former boarding students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, has sparked a bitter debate.

NMAH | "Kill the Indian and Save the Man"

Fort Marion prisoners were encouraged to draw by their warden and former adversary, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt's philosophy of “kill the Indian and save the ...

"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" - Carlisle Boarding School - US History

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Indian Boarding Schools - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of ...

A massive federal project that separated thousands of Native American children from their families and warehoused them in state-run institutions.

Kill the Indian, Save the Man | Chicago Public Library

Kill the Indian, Save the Man — Churchill, Ward — For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in ...

"Kill the Indian, and Save the Man": Captain Richard H. Pratt on the ...

An excerpt from a paper written by Capt. Richard H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School on the purpose his school would serve in “civilizing” Native ...

Pratt's Speech - Upstander Project

Summary. A policy of forced assimilation through education was upheld by removing Native children from their families and communities and sending them to ...

1879: First off-reservation boarding school for Native children opens

Congress authorizes the establishment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The school's first superintendent, Captain Henry Pratt, selects ...


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