Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904

Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904
ISBN-10
0806136030
ISBN-13
9780806136035
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
358
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Author
Richard Henry Pratt

Description

General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. His experiences led him to dedicate himself to Indian education, and from 1879 to 1904 he directed the Carlisle school, believing that the only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth to nonreservation settings and there inculcate in them what he considered civilized ways.

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