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Among the earliest of the boarding schools for Native Americans introduced in the late nineteenth century was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the school at Carlisle was intended to assimilate Native Americans from many different nations into the dominant white society. The Carlisle school went on to serve as a model for other boarding schools sponsored by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs before it closed in 1918.