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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
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.
Between 1880 and 1886, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened more than one hundred American Indian boarding schools modeled after Carlisle across the United States, primarily on reservations. [ 15 ] [ 12 ] Congress passed a series of laws designed to encourage the development of outing programs in those new schools.
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 ...
On November 1, 1879, he founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the first of many off-reservation boarding schools for Native Americans. Pratt did not regard his innovations at Fort Marion as limited to Native Americans. He developed the paradigm of compulsory immersion education.
933 images from student files, school publications, the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, the Cumberland County Historical Society, private collections, and user contributions. [4] 214 Publications originating from the school itself, including the campus publications The Red Man and The Indian Helper. Digitization of these ...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School people (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Carlisle Indian Industrial School" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
From 1879 to 1918, the property was transferred to the Department of Interior to operate the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This was the first off-reservation boarding school established to educate and assimilate Native American children into European-American culture. In 1891 Congress passed legislation to expand this program.