Posted on Dec 24, 2021
Retracing his ancestor's boarding school escape
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One of the best stories of this year
Retracing his ancestor's boarding school escape
Posted from indiancountrytoday.com
Native Americans
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Department of the Interior
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Capt Gregory Prickett I guess the Right does't want totalk about this HISTORY either...
"When news broke of the mass graves found in Canada at residential schools earlier this year, one young cross country runner in Nevada thought of his own family.
Ku Stevens, Yerington Paiute Tribe, is 17, and a runner. His great grandfather Frank Quinn attended the Stewart Indian School in 1913. Quinn ran away three times.
The Canadian residential schools were modeled after the U.S. government run boarding schools that started in the late 1800s.
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, called for an investigation to look into boarding schools.
In the midst of the news, the Nevada high schooler decided to retrace his great-grandfather's escape route, when he fled boarding school back in 1913."
"When news broke of the mass graves found in Canada at residential schools earlier this year, one young cross country runner in Nevada thought of his own family.
Ku Stevens, Yerington Paiute Tribe, is 17, and a runner. His great grandfather Frank Quinn attended the Stewart Indian School in 1913. Quinn ran away three times.
The Canadian residential schools were modeled after the U.S. government run boarding schools that started in the late 1800s.
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, called for an investigation to look into boarding schools.
In the midst of the news, the Nevada high schooler decided to retrace his great-grandfather's escape route, when he fled boarding school back in 1913."
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CMSgt Marcus Falleaf
The oldest WW I Memorial in the U.S. is on one of those boarding schools. Haskell in Lawrence KS. Most of the people who live there are unaware as well. Alot of my tribal history there.
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CMSgt Marcus Falleaf - Would it happen to be this one?
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Haskell_Institute
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Haskell_Institute
A non-reservation Indian boarding school was opened in Lawrence, Kansas in 1884 with 15 students. It was renamed for Dudley Haskell, the U.S. Representative from Kansas, who was instrumental in getting the school located at Lawrence. It became Haskell Institute in 1890 and by 1894 had over 600 students from 36 states.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
One of my great uncles or cousins or something made the walk from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin after he escaped Carlisle.
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