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What might have been the impact of the Carlisle School on Native American cultures?

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Carlisle and similar schools remain deeply controversial; they forced children to leave their families at young ages, giving up their indigenous cultures, languages, religious and spiritual beliefs, and even their names, thus doing untold psychological damage to generations of Native people.

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