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Indian Boarding Schools

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Carlisle Boarding School

BY. Casey Jr. Borrego

HISTORY OF CARLISLE BOARDING SCHOOL

  • This non-reservation boarding school idea can be tracked down to Captain Richard Henry Pratt.
  • In 1879, Pratt got to to test his exercise woth an abandon army base located at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
  • The pricples at the school was that Native-Americans were as equal to European-Americans.
  • From 1879 to 1910: 10,000 Native-Americans from 140 tribes attented this school.
  • The school could not get any child without the parents consent.

Carlisle Indian School Process

  • The school thought that they should take Native-Americans at an early age to begin assimilation.
  • The school hired a barber to cut the Native-Americans hair.
  • The Native-Americans then they were required to wear military uniforms.
  • School hired a photographer to take pictures of them before and after.
  • They spent half the day in academic classes and the other half in trading classes.

ACADEMIC CLASS AT CARLISLE

  • English
  • Math
  • History
  • Compostion
  • Drawing

TRADING CLASSES AT CARLISLE

  • Carpentry
  • Tinsmithing
  • Blacksmithing
  • Cooking
  • Sewing

TRADING CLASSES AT CARLISLE

  • Laundry
  • Baking

THOUGHTS BY OTHER NATIVE-AMERICANS ABOUT CARLISLE

  • Some of the Native-Americans thought the school was a horrible idea and opposed that their childeren attend there.
  • They thought the were kid napping their children to abandon their beliefs and be changed into what they wanted to see.
  • Some thought the school was a good idea to better their children life's for the future and to save them frim starvation.
  • Some were willing to let there children attend Carlisle.