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Between 1879 and 1918, over 10,000 Native American students from 140 tribes attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School. [7] Lieutenant Pratt and Southern Plains veterans of the Red River War at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida in 1875; several of these veterans later attended Carlisle Industrial School Richard Henry Pratt with a young student
Albuquerque Indian School (New Mexico) Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania) Central North Carolina School for the Deaf; Chrysalis closed 2017; Élan School (Poland, Maine) - closed 2011; Hopevale Union Free School District (boarding ended in 2010, merged into Randolph Academy UFSD in 2011) Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School
With the permission of Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz, Pratt was allowed to open the first government-sponsored American Indian boarding school, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, that year. [11] [12] The Carlisle Indian Industrial School's outing program started in 1880. [13]
Samuel had been at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania for just 47 days when he died in 1895. Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe ...
From the 1800s through the 1970s, there were more than 400 taxpayer-funded schools that sought to assimilate Native Americans into White culture.
Cantonment Indian Boarding School, Canton, Indian Territory, run by the General Conference Mennonites [16] from September, 1882 to 1 July 1927. [17] Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, [18] open 1879–1918. [19] Carter Seminary, Ardmore, Oklahoma, open 1917–2004, when the facility moved to Kingston, Oklahoma. It was renamed as ...
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Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.