Most people know of the great athlete Jim Thorpe. However, unless they are older, they will not know he was a product of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. Col. Richard Pratt founded this system to “Americanize” Indians and lose their Native identities. Westerners would deem Pratt a success. Yet thousands of Indian students throughout North America suffered terrors in these schools that no family would tolerate for their children. We will discuss both results of this far-reaching experiment.