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Carlisle Indian School
In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania is a school that changed the lives of many American Indians. Instead of learning the Indian culture the U.S. stripped the culture.
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Assimilation of Native Americans
The model for the Carlisle Indian School was Ft. Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Here Richard Pratt took the opportunity to try his assimilation experiment.
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Jim Thorpe
Although he loved football, and was arguable the best player at the Carlisle Indian School, Thorpe would gain international recognition for his skill on the race track
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture
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Thorpe's Legacy
Thorpe experienced a series of personal as well as professional setbacks in the years following his retirement from sports.
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Thorpe After the Olympics
Jim Thorpe went from Olympic athlete to sports superstar in the years following the Fifth Olympiad.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was an institution that taught native children to live in the white world. Some of those students made decent lives for themselves.
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