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- Title
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression.
- Authors
LOMAWAIMA, K. TSIANINA; OSTLER, JEFFREY
- Abstract
Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the architect of the U.S. assimilationist campaign of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous for the slogan "kill the Indian, save the man." We question the degree he is credited with building a federal bureaucracy that he bitterly criticized. We examine the historical record to illuminate how and why Pratt broke with racialized ideologies of his day; how Carlisle was both a model for other off-reservation boarding schools and a distinctive institution; and the complex nature of Pratt's relationships with Native people as adversaries, allies, and close friends. Our goal is to present a more fully three-dimensional portrait of Pratt than the overly simplistic image conjured by the phrase "kill the Indian, save the man.".
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRATT, Richard Henry, 1840-1924; NATIVE American school children; CULTURAL genocide; SLOGANS; BUREAUCRACY
- Publication
Journal of American Indian Education, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0021-8731
- Publication type
Article