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Monday, November 15, 2021

Assessing Blame for Deaths of Indian Boarding School Students

 

 

Editor’s note: This report reveals information about illness and death in federal Indian boarding schools that some readers could find triggering or upsetting. Discretion to sensitive groups is advised.

On June 16, 1913, Pauline Peazzoni, a 13-year-old Maidu girl from the Sierra Nevada of Northern California, lost her battle with the “white plague,” tuberculosis.

Temporary buildings at Chemawa school, 1885, W.P. AndersonOregon Historical Society, 0335P151
Temporary buildings at Chemawa school, 1885, W.P. AndersonOregon Historical Society, 0335P151

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