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Fort Marion, also known as Castillo de San Marcos, has a long and complex history. Built in 1672 and located in St. Augustine, Florida, it served as a prison during the Seminole Wars in the 1830’s, and at the end of the Indian Wars in the late 1880’s. It was where Captain Richard Pratt developed a plan of forced assimilation through education that spread across the United States to boarding schools, built with the philosophy “that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer tells a small part of this history.