Posted on Apr 4, 2022
Mysterious death of a chief’s daughter in Oregon illustrates challenges of Native boarding school...
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An old sepia-toned photo shows 11 Native American children in traditional dress, staring into a camera, as they paused near the end of a 400-mile journey across the Northwest.
Researchers say the picture was taken in July 1881 in Portland, as the children were being taken from Eastern Washington to Forest Grove, Oregon, to attend one of the U.S. government’s first Indian boarding schools.
By the time they posed for a second photo, the following March, their hair and clothes looked different. And one of them — a tall girl standing in the back of the first photo — was missing.
Researchers say the picture was taken in July 1881 in Portland, as the children were being taken from Eastern Washington to Forest Grove, Oregon, to attend one of the U.S. government’s first Indian boarding schools.
By the time they posed for a second photo, the following March, their hair and clothes looked different. And one of them — a tall girl standing in the back of the first photo — was missing.
Mysterious death of a chief’s daughter in Oregon illustrates challenges of Native boarding school...
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Did anybody notice what it says on the bottom of the photo? It says "new recruits". Recruits for what? The whitening of the Native population?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."In the 19th century, the United States was at war with Native American tribes all across the country. Federal agents were coercing tribal leaders to sign peace treaties and move their people by the thousands onto reservations. At the same time, the federal government was building boarding schools for Indigenous children and forcing young people to leave their families and their culture, to learn English and adopt colonial ways of dressing, working and living.
“Many in the United States had the thought that the best way to change the Native Americans of this continent was to change their children first,” said Warren Seyler, former chairman of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, in a recently recorded documentary from Counting Coup Media.
What’s informally termed the “boarding school era” began in 1879, with the establishment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, and lasted at least through the mid-20th century. The schools were often run directly by the federal Interior Department, or by cooperating religious institutions, such as the Catholic Church."...
..."In the 19th century, the United States was at war with Native American tribes all across the country. Federal agents were coercing tribal leaders to sign peace treaties and move their people by the thousands onto reservations. At the same time, the federal government was building boarding schools for Indigenous children and forcing young people to leave their families and their culture, to learn English and adopt colonial ways of dressing, working and living.
“Many in the United States had the thought that the best way to change the Native Americans of this continent was to change their children first,” said Warren Seyler, former chairman of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, in a recently recorded documentary from Counting Coup Media.
What’s informally termed the “boarding school era” began in 1879, with the establishment of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, and lasted at least through the mid-20th century. The schools were often run directly by the federal Interior Department, or by cooperating religious institutions, such as the Catholic Church."...
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