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Battlefield and Classroom - Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 (Paperback)
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Battlefield and Classroom - Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 (Paperback)
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General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime
superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in
Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian
policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt's long and
active military career included eight years of service as an army
field officer on the western frontier. During that time he
participated in some of the signal conflicts with Indians of the
southern plains, including the Washita campaign of 1868-1869 and
the Red River War of 1874-1875. He then served as jailor for many
of the Indians who surrendered. His experiences led him to dedicate
himself to Indian education, and from 1879 to 1904, still on active
military duty, he directed the Carlisle school, believing that the
only way to save Indians from extinction was to remove Indian youth
to nonreservation settings and there inculcate in them what he
considered civilized ways. Pratt's memoirs, edited by Robert M.
Utley and with a new foreword by David Wallace Adams, offer insight
into and understanding of what are now highly controversial
turn-of-the-century Indian education policies.
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