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Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s guiding principle for Indian education, as summed up at the nineteenth annual National Conference of Charities and Correction held in Denver, Colorado, in 1892: “Kill the Indian in him and save the man.” This principle resulted in a policy now widely recognized as the embodiment of cultural genocide.

The Indians, then, who had the wisdom and the grace to live in this country for perhaps ten thousand years without destroying or damaging any of it, needed for their travels no more than a footpath; but their successors, who in a century and a half plundered the area of at least half its topsoil and virtually all of its forest, felt immediately

accelerate plans to establish an independent black studies program at Cornell, as well as to investigate the burning of a cross outside a building in which several black female students lived.

Hollis Davis,

If a homesteader was murdered, Indians were always the first suspected of the crime. If two hundred Indian women and children and elders were ambushed on a spring morning and massacred by soldiers of the United States Army, the newspapers called it “a battle.”

That said, Du Bois then eviscerated the president’s Stoddard-inspired white-supremacist views. The “pseudo-science