02/17/2024
History - Truth - Redemption
This was not the desired process of Yeshua but the message of the Morning Star Yeshua (Jesus) is the message for All people …
In Him We Live and Move and Have our Being!!!
Revelation 22:16-17
What a wonderful young man!!!
With the approval of the United States government, the off-reservation Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded in 1879 by Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt. The Carlisle Barracks at Carlisle, Pennsylvania had been transferred from the U. S. War Department to the U. S. Department of the Interior. The outspoken Pratt voiced that tribal people needed to reject their traditional way of life and convert to Christianity. He possessed the belief that government had to "kill the Indian . . . to save the man". The desire was to forcibly assimilate native children into white culture.
In it's 39 years of existence, thousands of students from over 140 tribal nations came to Carlisle. Some 186 graves of native children still remain. Despite the hopelessness and pain of that earlier time, great stories of student resilience and survival have emerged.
Close to sixty Comanche students attended the school from 1879 to 1918.
Of those students, Preston Pohocsucut who was born in 1881 entered Carlisle in 1898 and left in 1903. In his time at Carlisle, his family recalled that Preston had raced against the great Jim Thorpe at the Penn Relays.
From the school's Record of Graduates Form in 1911 at Carlisle, Preston shared that he was married to Jane A. Carpio and lived in Apache, Oklahoma. Also, he now had a four room house and became a farmer. Preston had a little over 700 acres of land along with hogs, horses, and other houses. On the form from 1911, he had signed his name as Preston Pohoxicut. Today, the name is spelled Pohocsucut.
An amazing historical picture of the very handsome Comanche student Preston Pohoxicut, c. 1899. Taken by the photographer John N. Choate of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of the Cumberland County Historical Society. Additional information from the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida.
