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  • Healing a Century of Loss Fort Belknap's Students return home from Carlisle

    Michelle Mount|Sep 25, 2024

    The story of Native American students who were brought back to the Fort Belknap Reservation from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a tragic chapter in the broader history of Native American education and forced assimilation in the United States. The Carlisle Indian School, founded in 1879 by Richard Henry Pratt, was part of a government program designed to "civilize" Native American children by removing them from their homes, cultures, and languages, and immersing them in white American...