Gaylord News: Indian boarding school era still lives on for many
‘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 informa...
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