U.S. Interior Report Fails to Reveal Deaths of Thousands of Native Children in 'Prison Camps' -- U.S. Boarding Schools
Thousands of Native children died in U.S. boarding schools that were not reported by the U.S. Interior in its report, the Washington Post reveals. Suffering from malnutrition, diseases and abuse, the largest number of unreported children's deaths were at Chemawa Indian Training School in Oregon, followed by Haskell Indian Industrial School in Kansas. The largest number of deaths were at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Interior reported only 12 deaths at Rapid City Indian Boarding School in South Dakota. However, The Washington Post reveals there were 45 children that died there. At the Pine Ridge Boarding School, the Interior reported only 4 children died, when there are 10 documented deaths of children.
At St. Labre Indian Mission Boarding School in Montana, the Interior reported only one child died. However, thirty-three children are documented as dying there. The same Catholic boarding school was successfully sued by the Northern Cheyenne Nation for exploiting children in fundraising scams and funneling millions to the Catholic Church.
The year-long investigation by The Washington Post documented that 3,104 students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, three times as many deaths as reported by the U.S. Interior Department.
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about these various reports is that they are about deaths at the facilities. It does not take into account he children who were horribly sickened or injured and were then sent home prior to dying. It was a common practice by the people running the facilities to do this in order to keep down the numbers reported as dying in their custody.
Consensus about numbers regarding what has been done to the indigenous population of the United States can be difficult for several reasons with one of the main ones being that they weren't thought to be important enough to be kept. The US was generally more accurate and interested in keeping accurate records of gold, silver, lands taken and buffalo kills than they were the people themselves.
However having said that the Wiki machine says that from 1492-1900 the population loss was 96% and 98% of their ancestral lands were taken. It was not a process of "assimilation" as some people claim(ed) but clearly was instead "extermination".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
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