The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Looking at the class for young Indian girls shown in the photo above, what was the purpose of this institution?
A) to strip Indian children of their cultural identify and reshape them as model American citizens in the European mold
B) to incorporate the best of Native American culture with those values associated with American citizenship to produce a new hybrid "Indian" culture
C) to train Indian children to be valuable assets who would serve as Army scouts and Bureau of Indians Affairs teachers when they were returned to their respective reservations in the West
D) to permanently transplant young Indians to towns and villages in the East where they would live as farmers and housewives and cast off their Native American identity
E) to use the Indian children to teach easterners to respect Native American culture and values by
displaying their skills and accomplishments
Ans: A) to strip Indian children of their cultural identify and reshape them as model American citizens in the European mold
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