General Richard Henry Pratt is best known as the founder of the Carlisle Indian School. His impact on federal Indian policy and education was the foundation for Indian boarding schools across the country. This book chronicles his military career, which included conflicts with Native American tribes, and jailed those who surrendered. From there he became involved in Native American education, believing the only way to save the Indians was to “civilize” them through forced assimilation in boarding schools far from their homes and communities.

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Source: Pratt, Richard Henry, Utley, Robert M., & Wallace Adams, David. Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian. 1867-1904. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.