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      In 1879, a U.S. military officer, Captain Pratt, Richard Henry Richard Henry Pratt, opened an Indian school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with the aim of assimilating American Indian children into white society. Education and American Indians American Indians;attempts to assimilate Unlike many of his predecessors, Pratt believed that Indian people were capable of being transformed into the Anglo-American model of the law-abiding, Christian, Christianity wage-earning citizen, much as he saw freedmen becoming. According to Pratt, leaving behind everything that distinguished Indian people as “Indian,” including their language and spirituality, was a better Indian policy than extermination and relocation. Carlisle Indian School