She knows the 12-year-old Winnebago girl became gravely ill in the winter of 1930 at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial Boarding School. She knows Mildred died. She does not know where her aunt was ...

She also discovered that around a dozen cousins, aunts and uncles had also been at a boarding school in Oregon, including one who died there. She said the knowledge has helped her with healing.

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S ...

In 1930, as the Depression raged, Bernice and her siblings were sent to St. Mary’s Catholic Indian Boarding School in Odanah. She was 5. “Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of ...