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Cadet officers at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections
News of Mr.Pratt's experiment spread, and a vast array of similar schools were established all over the country. Some of the clearest descriptions of what such schools sought to accomplish are relayed in the words of the white officials in charge of these institutions.
"It's cheaper to educate Indians than to kill them," Thomas J.Morgan, the commissioner of Indian affairs, said in a speech at the establishment of the Phoenix Indian School in 1891.
The same year, a newspaper report published an exchange between the superintendent of Grand Junction Indian School and the secretary of the Interior that indicated that a student's toe was cut off because his foot could not fit into a government-issued shoe.