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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.

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