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Pratt: The Red Man’s Moses

While finishing Elaine Goodale Eastman’s 1935 book about Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle Indian School for its first 25 years of operation, I came across the the passage below. Under it is a photograph of Pratt’s grave marker in Arlington Cemetery.

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2 Responses to “Pratt: The Red Man’s Moses”

  1. raycm Says:
    January 23, 2022 at 3:23 pm | Reply

    General Pratt’s pallbearers were all Indians.

  2. tombenjey Says:
    January 23, 2022 at 4:36 pm | Reply

    I think you are correct.

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