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Kill the Indian, and Save the Man

Kill the Indian, and Save the Man

Capt. Richard Henry Pratt 1892 Richard Henry Pratt was one of the leading advocates of immersion education for Native Americans. He created the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be…

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