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‘Kill the Indian, save the man’: Stories of Indian boarding schools still echo
Monday, January 18, 2021
Gaylord News
WASHINGTON – About 180 white tombstones – each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School – stand row-by-row in the dewy grass of central Pennsylvania, bearing the names of those who died while being forced to learn the white man’s way.
From 1,500 to 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the Carlisle school, said Jim Gerenscer, co-director of the Carlisle Indian School Project, a database that provides information about the school and the students who attended. But some never made it back home, dying from unknown causes at Carlisle.
do? how can we earn this sacrifice? there are all sorts of things, ana. they can contribute to organizations, one of our favorites is the program called taps, which takes care of the family members generally hertling i hate to interrupt you. i want to continue this conversation as soon as we have another moment. we want to listen to the invocation now. major general michael l. hallard, military district of washington. executive director, army national military, cemetery program.