Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Carlisle Indian Industrial School, (1879 - 1918), in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the first federally supported school for Native Americans to be established off a reservation; it was founded in 1879 by Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt had an intense distrust of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, began to formulate a new school model based on the Hampton Institute. The first students arrived on October 6, 1879.

Bibliography

• {{Book reference | Author=Pratt, Richard Henry | Title=Battlefield and classroom : four decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 | Publisher=Norman: University of Oklahoma Press | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0-80-613603-0}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Witmer, Linda F. | Title=The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1879-1918 | Publisher=Carlisle, Pa. : Cumberland County Historical Society | Year=1993 | ID=ISBN 0-96-389230-4}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Pratt, Richard Henry | Title=How to deal with the Indians: the potency of environment | Publisher=Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service | Year=1983 | ID=}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Eastman, Alaine Goodale | Title=Pratt, the Red Man's Moses | Publisher=Norman: University of Oklahoma Press | Year=1935 | ID=LCCN 35021899}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Pratt, Richard Henry | Title=The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania : its origins, purposes, progress, and the difficulties surmounted | Publisher=Carlisle, Pa. : Cumberland County Historical Society | Year=1979 | ID=}}
• Richard Henry Pratt Papers. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.