Native American outing programs sent Native American children at American Indian boarding schools to live and work with white families from the late 19th century to World War II. The programs were established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the primary aim of forcibly assimilating Native American children into white American culture. The first formal outing program in the United States was established by Richard Henry Pratt at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1878. By 1900, outing programs modeled after Carlisle's had begun in several other American Indian boarding schools, including Haskell Institute (Haskell Indian Nations University) in Lawrence, Kansas, Perris School (Sherman Indian High School) in Riverside, California, Carson School (Stewart Indian School) in C