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Brigadier-General Richard Henry Pratt (December 6, 1840 – March 15, 1924) [1] was a United States Army officer who founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania in 1879 and served as its longtime superintendent.
Between 1879 and 1918, over 10,000 Native American students from 140 tribes attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School. [7] Lieutenant Pratt and Southern Plains veterans of the Red River War at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida in 1875; several of these veterans later attended Carlisle Industrial School Richard Henry Pratt with a young student
After the Indian Wars, Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt was assigned to supervise Native prisoners of war at Fort Marion which was located in St. Augustine, Florida. The United States Army sent seventy-two warriors from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo nations, to exile in St. Augustine, Florida. They were used as hostages to encourage ...
Richard Henry Pratt (1840–1924), American general, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Richard Pratt (cricketer) (1896–1982), English cricketer for Derbyshire; Richard Pratt (businessman) (1934–2009), Australian businessman; Richie Pratt (1943–2015), American musician; Richard L. Pratt Jr. (born 1953), American theologian
Richard Henry Pratt believed that outing programs oriented toward assimilation were more ethical than outing programs oriented toward labor. [20] Pratt spent his retirement years criticizing work-oriented outing programs that were common in the western United States. [20] But abuses have been documented in both types of outing programs.
My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880 is a 1999 children's historical novel by Ann Rinaldi, part of the Dear America series of books.
In 1879, Richard Henry Pratt returns to Hillsgate, and invites Robert and Clara to join him in teaching at an experimental school in Pennsylvania designed to "civilize" Native American children. Pratt persuades the Lakota that their children need to learn the white men's ways.
The army assigned First Lieutenant (later Captain) Richard Henry Pratt to transport the prisoners to an old Spanish fort, the Castillo de San Marcos (then known as Fort Marion), near Saint Augustine, Florida. Shackled together, they were taken across country on foot, by wagon, train (most had never before seen a train), and steamboat. [1]