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American Horse with children during a visit to the Carlisle School, 1882.
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American Horse sitting with children during a visit to the Carlisle School, 1882.

Credit: Courtesy of the Cumberland County Historical Society

One of the few prominent Native Americans to support the Boarding School movement, Sioux chief American Horse sent his children and relatives to the Carlisle Indian School. In 1882 he visited the Pennsylvania school and sat for this photograph.

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