1875

Pratt’s prison experiment at Fort Marion

Florida; imprisoned Plains Native men

Richard Henry Pratt imposed military dress, discipline, and schooling on Native prisoners. This model helped shape the later off-reservation boarding-school system.

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Context / qualification

Prison program and later children’s boarding schools are linked but distinct institutions.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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