Episode 156: Peaceably If They Will, Forcibly If They Must

 

Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlisle School, in 1879

 

In 1880s, the U.S. government embarked on a course of cultural genocide against the Amerindians. Their weapon of choice of was a rigorous education system and one of their many battlegrounds turned out to be Phoenix.

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Episode 155: Mexican or Mexican