Hidden History: Federal investigation generates new interest in MN American Indian boarding schools

For decades, the federal government took Native American children from their families and sent them to boarding schools around the United States, including to the one in Pipestone, Minn., a small, southwestern town eight miles from the South Dakota border.
Those schools, most of which have been closed for decades, are now at the center of a new federal investigation.
In June, the Department of the Interior announced a comprehensive review of the "troubling legacy" of American Indian boarding school facilities in the U.S.
The Pipestone school is expected to be included in the probe, as well as the American Indian boarding school in Flandreau, South Dakota, 18 miles west of Pipestone.
The investigation came as a result of the discovery of hundreds of human remains on the grounds of residential schools for indigenous children in Canada.
The final report, expected in April 2022, will identify boarding school facilities in the U.S. and will examine any "known and possible student burial sites" near those grounds.
The news of the mass graves in Canada has sent tribal leaders and native people in Minnesota into the archives, eager to learn more about what is being called the state's "hidden history."
"There is a desire to know if there is a similar story, an unknown story," historian Brenda Child said.
Child, a Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, is a leading expert on American Indian boarding schools. The Red Lake Nation member was the first to write about the American Indian experience in these facilities and is sharing her work with tribes across the state.
"Tribal leaders in Minnesota want to know, did kids die in boarding schools in Minnesota or in other states where we sent our children?" she said.
See the full investigative report: kstp.com/news/hidden-history-...

[@davebell7083]

My uncles (and my Father) from Cass Lake, Minnesota went to Pipestone and Flandreau in the 1930s and 1940s. He never shared his experiences with me there but I could see the pain in his eyes from his experiences there. BTW..my father kept his short hair his whole life till he passed away in Dec 1998.

[@sweet_iris]

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[@grannyrachael8586]

My grandparents went to pipestone boarding school

[@jht143dragon7]

My great grandma full blooded Lakota Sioux. Spoke of these things and others to me as a small child.

[@meganh4011]

I don't know if it's possible to right all the wrongs, this was definitely wrong. But it is good to look back, learn from the true history, acknowledge, & evolve as humanity should. Away from titles & compartments towards acceptance of each other & a less materialistic life. RIP little ones💞

[@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205]

No nothing can right the wrongs done to the indigenous people. Even somebody’s sympathy has no use.

[@courtneyjohnson2412]

So why isn’t pipestone searched well yet? Someone contact me

[@jj-eo7bj]

Did you find news ?

[@courtneyjohnson2412]

My grandpas attended here💔

[@daphnerodriguez9980]

WOW! WRONG, THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜,