Title: Native Americans, Carlisle Indian School
Digital ID: codhawp 10032086
URL: http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10032086+X-32086
Description: This photographs shows native American students who attended a residential school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to learn more about the white man’s culture. “The Carlisle Indian School operated from 1879-1918 in a former army barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. An army captain, Richard Henry Pratt started Carlisle Indian School in 1879. He thought that Indian children would learn white ways better if they were away from their homes. The boarding school was in Pennsylvania. It was far away from the Indian reservations. When children came to the school, the teachers cut their long hair. The students also got different clothes. No one would let them talk their own language. Many children became very homesick. Their teachers showed them how to read and write in English. They also taught them trades like farming, sewing, and baking. The Indian children were sent to church and Sunday School. Their teachers wanted them to know how to live like white people when they left the school.”