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Gr 6 Up—"Kill the Indian, save the man." This slogan, adopted by Richard Henry Pratt, Superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, was and is as dangerous as it sounds. The intent to strip Native American children of their culture and assimilate them into the white Christian community can be seen as the failure and tragedy it was as recollections are given a voice in this powerful documentary by Robin Levin, librarian at Fort Washakie (WY) School/Community Library and a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow. False treaties and removal policies were just the beginning of the maltreatment of Native Americans, when in 1879 the United States government commissioned a military officer with no backgr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More