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Why were three of Gansworth's grandparents sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania?

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The mission of the schools was to forcibly assimilate Indian children so they would be less likely to return to the reservation and less likely to pass their cultural traditions down to the next generations.

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