Richard Henry Pratt

In the 1870s, the U.S. government enacted a policy of assimilation of Native Americans, to Americanize them. Their goal was to turn them into white men. Schools were an important part of facilitating their goal. In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian School. It was the first school in which Native American children were culturally exposed to American ideology. The idea for the boarding school first came through treatment of Cheyenne warriors. In the 1860s, Americans were in the

The Indian Boarding Schools In the late 1800s, Captain Richard Henry Pratt set out to “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”(A Plea to “Citizenize” Indians). The goal to erase Indian cultures and replace it with white American culture was sought to be achieved through boarding schools. Pratt was the creator of the first Indian boarding school: Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. These government-funded boarding schools would take children from their homes on reservation, often for them

Boarding schools are scary enough for children who speak the same language. Imagine a village, soldiers come in and take the children, age five and older, away in a wagon. The children arrive at a school far away from home, family, and culture. Separated according to age and sex, stripped of their clothes, bathed, and forced to stand still as they get their hair cut, many are crying, terrified of what is happening. They receive uniforms, and new Christian names, thus stripping them of their identities

Oklahoma, Lt. Richard Pratt worked closely with Indians and had a certain respect for the Indians. Pratt advocated to General Sheridan to reform the Indians. Pratt had them moved by train to St. Augustine, Florida. At Ft. Marion, Florida the Indians underwent an experiment to change them. The Indians were dressed in army uniforms and had their hair cut to resemble the white man’s image. The purpose was to assimilate the Indians and wash out an resemblance of native culture. Pratt recruited local

Since learning about the Indian boarding schools, I have mixed feelings about Richard Henry Pratt and his intentions of changing Native American lives. Although in some ways Pratt changed White peoples view of Native Americans for the better, he was not taking the feelings of Native Americans into consideration. It seems that Pratt thought he was doing them justice by teaching them English and how to work as “civilized” people. He had hopes of helping Native Americans by training them to achieve

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first started in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by former general, Richard Henry Pratt. The purpose of the schools was to strip Native Americans of their cultural traditions and teach them the skills necessary to function in American Society, according to Pratt. Pratt keyed this belief with the saying “Kill the Indian, save the man,” in order to justify his reasons to assimilate the Indians to the white culture (Mintz 2016). What Richard Henry Pratt did was wrong. The Indians should find self-actualization