. >> the carlisle pennsylvania, the carlisle industrial school was probably the most famous and prominentf a series of indian boarding schools set up to radically assimilate american indians into white society. white reformers -- they saw the american indian race as dying out as threatened and vanishing, a popular word at the time. and sort of a combination of guilt and policy, they decided the best way to save this supposedly dying race because it wasn't really was to turn them into whites. the children -- >> turn them into whites. >> turn them into whites. to send them to these boarding schools, which they could not go home for five years. they were forbidem to speak their native languages. their hair in the case of boys was cut short. they were put into white uniforms and sent out to live with white families for the summers. it was radical assimilation. and parenthetically right now there's this very interesting movement going on sort of building with the internet, facilitated by the internet, by facebook pages of the descendents of these boarding school students trying to retrace the