How were Pratt’s goals for the Carlisle School similar to previous federal policies of removing Native American tribes from their lands and waging war against them? How were they different?5. Based on this document, what was the purpose of the Carlisle School? **Carlisle Indian Industrial School****Source 1:** Richard Pratt, Founder of the Carlisle Indian School, a boarding school for Native Americans, 1879.A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. . . . In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man. . . .The Indians under our care remained savage, because [they were] forced back upon themselves and away from association with English-speaking and civilized people, and because of our savage treatment of them. We have never made any attempt to civilize them with the idea of taking them into the nation, and all of our policies have been against citizenizing . . . them.It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery, he grows to possess a savage language, superstition, and life. We, left in the surroundings of civilization, grow to possess a civilized language, life, and purpose. Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit. . . .The school at Carlisle is an attempt on the part of the government to do this. Carlisle has always planted treason to the tribe and loyalty to the nation at large. It has preached against colonizing Indians [on reservations], and in favor of individualizing them. . . . Carlisle fills young Indians with the spirit of loyalty to the stars and stripes, and then moves them out into our communities to show their conduct and ability that the Indian is no different from the white or the colored, that he has the inalienable right to liberty and opportunity and the white and the negro have. Source: Richard Pratt, “Official Report of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of Charities and Correction,” 1892.

The Native Americans are known to be the first citizen of both the American continents. They were the first generation who discovered the New World and resisted the Europeans. The Europeans had intended to settle down in the New World but the natives were not accustomed to the new weapons or the new diseases that were carried around with the former.Both Pratt's goals with the Carlisle Indian School and the federal policies were quite similar. Although there were a few similarities such as the removal of the Indian tribes from their lands. This was done because Pratt wanted to bring a change in the children of these tribes instead of changing the adults. The motive was to teach the children of these native tribes to learn about the civilized culture and get rid of their own culture which was considered to be "savage". This schooling was different in another way because Pratt did not want to cause a fight or go against a war with these tribes in relation to the removal of their land. Thus, this school was a system of "forced assimilation" in the form of a boarding school to stop these generations from passing on their culture to another.

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How were Pratt’s goals for the Carlisle School similar to previous federal policies of removing Native American tribes from their lands and waging war against them? How were they different? 5. Based on this document, what was the purpose of the Carlisle School?

How were Pratt’s goals for the Carlisle School similar to previous federal policies of removing Native American tribes from their lands and waging war against them? How were they different? 5. Based on this document, what was the purpose of the Carlisle School?