Top headline: New York Times, 1/9/2025
Photo and bottom headline: History, 7/11/2023
From History:
“Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
Richard Henry Pratt, 1892
That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th century. Decades later, those words—delivered in a speech by U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt, who opened the first such school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1879—have come to symbolize the brutality of the boarding school system.
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