From the Morning Sun:
John Crampton, member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, still remembers the days when he attended the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School at age 6.
Eighty-three years later, as he walked the grounds of the former school, he reminisced about the fond memories of his childhood.
“That was the big boy’s dormitory,” Crampton said. “Over there was a deer pen.
“The buildings for the teachers and staff was over there.”
The Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial School was in operation from 1893 to 1933.
An excerpt from an Oct. 1, 1889 report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shows what the U.S. government’s mindset was like at the time: “The Indians must conform to the ‘white man’s ways,’ peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must,” the report stated.
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