How a school created to assimilate Native Americans helped change football
May 1, 2007
In 1879, a cavalry officer named Richard Henry Pratt founded the Carlisle Indian School, a remarkable 40-year chapter in this country’s failed social policy regarding Native Americans. Carlisle was blessed with gifted athletes and a wizard of a coach; It took brains to concoct the schemes and intelligence to execute them. : Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner
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