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General James Carleton to General Lorenzo Thomas, Sept. 6, 18631
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. Kill the Indian in him and save the man.
Captain Richard Henry Pratt (speech in 1892 at Carlisle)2
When one Indian boy or girl leaves this school with an education, the ‘Indian Problem’ will forever be solved for him and his children.
Chancellor Lipincott of University of Kansas at Haskell Dedication (September 17, 1884)3
The next day the torture began. The first thing they did was cut our hair … .While we were bathing our breechclouts were taken, and we were ordered to put on trousers. We’d lost our hair and we’d lost our clothes; with the two we’d lost our identity as Indians.
Asa Daklugie, Chiricahua Apache, 18864
Your son died quietly, without suffering, like a man. We have dressed him in his good clothes and tomorrow we will bury him the way the white people do.