Richard Henry Pratt - Wikipedia
Brigadier-General Richard Henry Pratt (December 6, 1840 – March 15, 1924) [1] was a United States Army officer who founded and was longtime superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
"Kill the Indian in him, and save the man": R. H. Pratt on the ...
This resource includes the full text from Captain Richard Henry Pratt's speech in which he used the now well-known phrase to describe his philosophy of assimilation: "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."
Pratt, Richard Henry (1840–1924) - TSHA
1995年5月1日 · Richard Henry Pratt, army officer and founder of Carlisle Indian School, the oldest of three sons of Richard and Mary (Herrick) Pratt, was born on December 6, 1840, at Rushford, New York. He had smallpox as a child and carried the scars on his face for the rest of his life.
How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through …
2017年8月16日 · Decades later, those words—delivered in a speech by U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt, who opened the first such school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1879—have come to symbolize the...
Collection: Richard Henry Pratt papers | Archives at Yale
Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a soldier in the American Civil War and later fought in armed conflicts against Native Americans on the Great Plains. In 1879, Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, the first Native …
Richard Henry Pratt: 1840-1924 - Dickinson College
The history of the Carlisle Indian School is inexorably bound to its founder, Richard Henry Pratt (fig. 2; cat. 30), whose attitude toward Native Americans shaped virtually every dimension of it.
Pratt, Richard Henry | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
Group portrait of first male students at the school from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies. They arrived on October 6, 1879. Richard Henry Pratt is standing at far left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at far right. Note: This is a different view of the first male students than is more commonly seen. It was taken from…
Pratt, Richard Henry | House Divided - Dickinson College
Pratt, Richard Henry 1840–1924, American soldier and educator, b. Rushford, N.Y. He served in the Union army during the Civil War and then in the Indian wars in the West, where he became interested in the cultural problems of the Native Americans.
Richard Henry Pratt - (Native American History) - Fiveable
Richard Henry Pratt was a military officer and educator known for founding the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879, which became a key institution in the forced assimilation of Native Americans into Euro-American culture.
Pratt, Richard Henry | Encyclopedia.com
Richard Henry Pratt, 1840–1924, American soldier and educator, b. Rushford, N.Y. He served in the Union army during the Civil War and then in the Indian wars in the West, where he became interested in the cultural problems of the Native Americans.