U.S. Army Lt. Richard Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian School in 1879, in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Pratt coined the infamous phrase,”Kill the Indian to Save the Man,” as a motto for the systematic destruction of Native culture, language and family as an alternative to warring against tribal nations. Some Red Lake Band members attended the Carlisle School.  Children at the boarding schools were forbidden to speak their native language, resulting in much of our lost language today.

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