1. “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
-Henry Pratt

2. Cultural Genocide at Carlisle Indian industrial school
Presentation by: Tessa Honeycutt

3. Background Indian wars “Indian Problem” Henry Pratt
Carlisle open in 1879

4. Maps
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle Campus Map

5. What constitutes Cultural Genocide
Systematical destroying, eroding, or undermining of the integrity of a culture
Weakening and destruction of cultural values and practices
Prohibition of spiritual practices
Forcible transfer of children
Prohibition of language
Confiscation of spiritual or cultural objects

6. Confiscation of spiritual or cultural objects: Clothes
Cultural Significance
From nature
Hand made
Culture shock
Standard uniform
Uncomfortable
complicated

7. Confiscation of spiritual or cultural objects: Hair
Long braids cut for males
Cultural significance
Mourning
Symbolism
Rain/Fertility
Prevent lice
Females exempted

8. Confiscation of spiritual or cultural objects: Names
Native Names:
Aindusgwon
Mahjekeshig
Sahgahgewaygahbowequay
Cultural Significance
Naming Ceremonies
Personal Achievement
Naming process
Historical figures
Translated names
New Names:
Robert Redhawk
William Swiftriver
Henry Beecher

9. Prohibition of language
Example passage in Navajo:
Bilaʼashdaʼii tʼáá ałtsoh yiníkʼehgo bidizhchįh dóó aheełtʼeego ílį́į́go bee baahóchįʼ. Eíí háníʼ dóó hánítshakees hwiihdaasyaʼ eíí binahjį́ʼ ahidiníłnáhgo álíleekʼehgo kʼé bee ahił niidlį́.
Isolation
Prohibition of Native Language
Punishment
Lye soap
New way of thinking
Connection to family/tribe
Translation:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

10. Prohibition of spiritual practices/ Religion
Conversion to Christianity
Sunday and Wednesday service
Daily Prayer
Question Native religion, myths, and elders
Satanic
New truths

11. Prohibition of spiritual practices: Sickness and death
Spread of disease
Poor conditions
Weak immune systems
Prohibition of healing Rituals
Burial by Christian traditions
Prohibited Native burial traditions
Spirit resealing ceremony
Unable to pass to next world

12. Carlisle and Native Americans Today
United States Army War College
Reservation conditions
Standing Rock

13. Sources
Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction : American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas,
Archuleta, Margaret, Brenda. Child, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, and Heard Museum. Away from Home : American Indian Boarding School Experiences, Phoenix, Ariz. : Santa Fe: Heard Museum ; Distributed by Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000.
Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, save the Man : The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco: City Lights, 2004.

14. Sources continued
Coleman, Michael C., and NetLibrary, Inc. American Indian Children at School, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Fear-Segal, Jacqueline. White Man's Club : Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. Vol. 2. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Fear-Segal, Jacqueline, and Susan D. Rose. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous histories, memories, and reclamations. University of Nebraska Press Lincoln,

15. Sources continued
Fuchs, Estelle., and Robert James Havighurst. To Live on This Earth; American Indian Education. 1st Ed.]. ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.
Kingston, Lindsey. "The Destruction of Identity: Cultural Genocide and Indigenous Peoples." Journal of Human Rights, 2014, 00.
Reyhner, Jon Allan., and Jeanne M. Oyawin. Eder. American Indian Education : A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
Novic, Elisa. "Conclusions." In The Concept of Cultural Genocide, The Concept of Cultural Genocide, Chapter 8. Oxford University Press, 2016.