In 1879, the U.S. government established the off-reservation boarding school system to hasten the projected eradictation of Indian cultures. In the following years, many Pawnee students experienced cultural genocide in those schools.
Established in 1879 by the U.S. government, Carlisle Indian Industrial School was one of many off-reservation boarding schools designed to assimilate Indian youth.
These treaties are important documents pertaining to Pawnee relations with the United States government. Collectively, they contained provisions for peace, friendship, trade, land cessions, assimilation programs, and annuties.
