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oct 6, 1879 - Carlisle Indian Industrial School

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The first students attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, the country’s first off-reservation boarding school. The school was designed to assimilate its students into U.S. society by educating them in English and American customs. (Change: policy shifts from destroying Natives to integrating them)

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oct 6, 1879
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~ 146 years ago