Welcome to Native American Heritage Month
Brought to you by: Elizabeth Bourgeret & Bag of Bones Podcast
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Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt wanted the government to fund a school that would require Native children to move away from their homes to attend a school far away. The first one, Carlisle Indian School was opened in 1879.
By 1902 the Bureau of Indian Affairs authorized 25 federally funded off-reservation schools, created by in 15 states and territories, with a total enrollment of over 6,000 students. Soon the Carlisle curriculum became the base for over 300 schools across the United States. Listen to the Bag of Bones Podcast Episode: Kill the Indian, Save the Man for your chance to win prizes! |
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"If we were not finished [scrubbing the dining room floors] when the 8 a.m. whistle sounded, the dining room matron would go around strapping us while we were still on our hands and knees."
Anna Moore, Phoenix Indian School |
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indian in our civilization and when we get them under, holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.
Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, |
They tell us not to speak in the Navajo language because you’re going to school. You’re supposed to only speak English. And that was true. They did practice that and we got punished if you was caught speaking Navajo.
John Brown Jr., Navajo Code Talker |
"A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead."
1892 Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School |
Other episodes from Bag of Bones Podcast around Native American Heritage Month: |
More about the Bag of Bones Podcast: |
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The Bag of Bones Podcast covers the rarely known and often hidden stories from America's dark past. If it's creepy, horrifying, unexplainable, swept under the rug, or
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downright evil, you might very well find it on the Bag of Bones playlist. Biographies (like Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde), Serial Killers (like Carl Panzram and Jesse Pomeroy), Haunted Locations (like Lemp Mansion and the Sallie House) and even the history's oddities (like hair jewelry and plaster of paris in your milk and what happens when you stuff meat into a jar for months...) and other things that go bump in the night...
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This podcast is focused more on the actual history and less on the "gore factor" and hours of research goes in to bringing the listeners the latest, most up to date facts possible.
Subscribe today wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
Click here to learn more.
Click here for a list of episode topics