Carlisle Indian Industrial School

struck by the peaceful, generous nature of the Taino. The Taino society was highly organized around a patriarchal hierarchy and distinguished by happiness and friendliness. Columbus frankly stated how surprised he had been to make friends with the Indians. He wrote, "They are gentle and comely people. They are so naive and free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would never believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer

against the foreign diseases" (DiBacco, 1995). As the encroachment of settlers on Indian lands continued, so did the inevitable conflicts. "To the Indians, the arriving Europeans seemed attuned to another world; they appeared oblivious to the rhythms and spirits of nature" (Jordan, 1991). Nature to the Europeans was something of an obstacle, even an enemy, and these disrespectful attitudes were quite apparent to the Indians. The wilderness was also a commodity however: "a forest was so many board feet

desire or reason anything but minimal contact with the Indians. However, starting in the 1700s the European colonists population skyrocketed. The need for more resources became evident and the colonists knew they could attain these necessities by creating a relationship of mutual benefit with the Native tribes. The Indians, at first skeptical, however became growingly open to the colonists and the relationship they were looking to attain. Indian furs were traded for colonial goods and military

scarring events that the First Nations Peoples, Indian, Inuit and Métis had to endure over the course of 100 years. Canadian residential schools, United States of America's Indian boarding schools and Australia's stolen generation, these three titles have many things incommon about each other but also have slight differences that impact the children indefinitely. During the 19th century, The Canadian government speculated that the best chance for the Indian people to survive is to force them to adopt

Children were taken away from their homes and told everything they knew was wrong. They were sent to boarding schools to change their culture. These boarding schools were run by the United States government. The government's goal was to civilize Native Americans. They sent children to these schools against their will. Native American children were educated like Americans and they had to change their native ways to be more like whites (Cayton 266). Teachers abused their students and beat their native

22nd, 2017 Residential Schools Residential schools were viewed as a way to refine the Aboriginal population and keep children from keeping their language and their cultural traditions. The purpose of residential schools was to civilize the Aboriginal people and to make them useful and good members of society with strict punishments for any of their wrong doings. Richard Pratt is the person who founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and he said “you must kill the Indian in him; to save the

tribes, and children. One horrific way that this has occurred is through boarding schools for Native American students. According to writer, Walter C. Fleming the first boarding school was founded on October 6, 1879 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania known as, Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Fleming, 2003). The founder, Captain Richard Henry Pratt, believed the pure goal for implementing the boarding school was to “Kill the Indian and save the man,” and that is exactly what they did (Fleming, 2003). America

Cheyanne Ervin APUSH, Period: 2 Ms. Check 14 January 2013 Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1861-1877: * Essential Question: What factors helped advance the integration of the national economy after the Civil War? Section 1: The Republican Vision: * Integrating the National Economy: * Reshaping the former Confederacy after the Civil War supplemented a Republican drive to strengthen the national economy to overcome limitations of market variations that took place under previous Democratic

Thorpe. He was born in 1888 and in Prague Indian Territory which is actually known as Oklahoma. He was known for

“Scholars have described the residential boarding schools as ‘labor camps’, or experiments in modified slavery, run in the grueling, regimented manner of military schools” (Grisham). “Children were forced to cut their hair, prevented from speaking their native language or engaging in their sacred rituals, sometimes forced to wear military uniforms, beaten and