Brigadier General Richard Henry Pratt sought to instill in the American Indians through the education of their children. Pratt had served in the Union Army, and in 1875, he transported seventy-two captive Cheyenne Indians to Fort Marion, Florida. He held them there, and during this period of captivity, he transformed them: he cut their hair, dressed them in military clothes, and drilled them daily. Pratt developed what would become the goal of the entire network of Indian residential schools: “kill the Indian, save the man.” Four years later, in 1879, he would found the Carlisle Indian
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