U.S. Interior Report Fails to Reveal Deaths of Thousands of Native Children in 'Prison Camps' -- U.S. Boarding Schools [View all]

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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