"Carlisle Indian Boarding School" with Gwen Leaffe Carr

Unreasonable

“How do you expect this country to ever be anything but in turmoil?”

This is the rhetorical question posed by our guest, Gwen Leaffe Carr, executive director of the Carlisle Indian School Project.

A relatively unknown chapter in the ongoing tragedy of America’s Native people is the one about the boarding schools designed to erase them. Or, in the words of their architect, Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, to “kill the Indian in him, and save the man."

This episode of Unreasonable is dedicated to all those who suffered the indignity of these schools, to those who died there, and to those who survived.

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