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Richard Pratt
American educator
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Native American history and assimilation policies
- In Native American: Boarding schools
) founder Richard Pratt, who in 1892 described his mission as “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” Such sentiments persisted for decades; in 1920 Duncan Campbell Scott, the superintendent of the Canadian residential school system, noted his desire to have the schools “continue until…
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