Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the standard for Indian assimilation in America and Canada.

From 1879 to 1918, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the flagship operation of federally funded, off-reservation boarding schools that forcibly and coercively took Native American children ...

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first off-reservation boarding school established for Native American children in the United States, ushering in a dark legacy of oppression and violence ...

Interviews with survivors and primary documents give accounts of violent cultural suppression under the guise of education, modeled after the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School.