Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Journal of American Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 1999, pp. 323-341
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Argues that while Hampton Institute and Carlisle Indian School were both instruments of assimilation and followed similar curriculums, the philosophy behind them differed. Pratt, the founder of Carlisle, believed that Native Americans could be integrated into the general population within one generation. Armstrong, the founder of Hampton, believed that it would take several generations to move the "savages" up the evolutionary scale.