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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Richard Henry Pratt

Brigadier General Richard Henry Pratt was an American military officer who founded and was longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is associated with the first recorded use of the word "racism," which he used in 1902 to criticize racial segregation. Pratt is also known for using the phrase "kill the Indian, save the man" in reference to the ethos of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and efforts to assimilate and educate Native Americans with the western, American values of his time.

December 6, 1840 - April 23, 1924
We must kill the savage to save the man. — © Richard Henry Pratt
We must kill the savage to save the man.
The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.
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