Boarding Schools Played a Key Role in Spreading Disease in Native Populations

As many as 40,000 Native kids died while attending boarding school, and thousands of others died after going home sick.

George Little Wound was gravely ill when he was sent home to Pine Ridge from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1889, just three years after arriving at the notorious boarding school. Little Wound, the son of Chief Little Wound, was among a group of three Pine Ridge students shipped home together with what the school physician described as “incipient consumption” and “scrofula...

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