Did you know the most famous Indian Boarding School in history actually began as a hostage situation? In this video, we look at the dark origins of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt traveled to the Dakota Territory to recruit the first class of students. But this wasn’t about education it was about control. Taking place just three years after the Lakota defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the government needed an “insurance policy” to ensure the chi
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Did you know the most famous Indian Boarding School in history actually began as a hostage situation? In this video, we look at the dark origins of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt traveled to the Dakota Territory to recruit the first class of students. But this wasn’t about education it was about control. Taking place just three years after the Lakota defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the government needed an “insurance policy” to ensure the chi
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