:49:01
Your way with children is commendable.
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Well, thank you.
:49:05
The parents bring so many of
their old ways and prejudices.
:49:08
If you don't help the children early on,
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they'll never adjust to their new lives.
:49:12
My view precisely.
:49:15
Thank you.
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You mentioned a proposition.
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Yes.
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Indeed.
:49:27
It is a great mistake
:49:29
to think that the indian is
born an inevitable savage.
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He is born a blank like the rest of us.
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Left in the surroundings of savagery,
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one naturally becomes a savage.
:49:40
But transfer the savage-born infant
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to the surroundings of civilization,
:49:43
and he will grow to possess a
civilized language and habit.
:49:48
President hayes and the congress
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have granted me the use of barracks in
:49:52
carlisle, pennsylvania,
for a model indian school
:49:55
and authorized me to recruit 125 children
:49:58
from here and the territories
for its inaugural class.
:50:02
Well, that's so far away.
:50:04
Surely the reservation is a better place.
:50:07
The reservation works
to colonize the indian,
:50:09
not individualize him.
:50:12
If the indian is to be assimilated,
:50:14
he must be gotten into the
swim of american citizenship.
:50:18
He must feel the touch of it day after day
:50:19
until he becomes saturated
with the spirit of it.
:50:23
Immerse the indian in
the waters of civilization
:50:26
and hold him there until
he is thoroughly soaked.
:50:31
In short, sirs, by being
placed in good schools,
:50:34
taught our language and industries
and going out among our people,
:50:37
your children can become useful americans.
:50:40
You see yourselves the evidence
:50:42
that this is now the white man's land,
:50:45
and there's nothing left for you
:50:46
and your children but to
become a part of it all.
:50:48
White man... smart.
:50:51
He speak many promises.
:50:54
More and more.
:50:57
White man keep one.
:50:58
He say he take our land.