Search underway for human remains at site of former Indian boarding school
8,479
Published 2024-07-29
Visitors can tour the officers' homes, and other structures, including a jail.
The website mentions the site hosted an Indian boarding school for more than 60 years, but there are no buildings or markings at the park recognizing that part of the fort’s history.
Jon Shellenberger, and the Yakama Nation, hope to change that.
Read more: www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/y…
All Comments (21)
-
I want to see our schools teach all the history not just what they want us to know, thank you for doing this.
-
They have done this search for remains at other schools. ..results = no bodies, no apologies only excuses.
-
Please report more details and offer a web site for information.
-
So glad I left Seattle almost 30 years ago. It sucks there now
-
Why is these sites not marked? The story of the forcible removal of the children and the atrocities committed in those "schools" needs to be told in full, including marking all of them. Show people how deeply this affected the native communities, and how it's attempted erasure from history is still being downplayed.
-
Oh boy jump on the victim band wagon get money and power
-
King 5 Seattle: ask the questions. Has this been done before at other schools? Have any bodies been found? The answer is......?
-
I'm trying to find a web site that documents actual found remains. Can someone please direct me to this information? Thank you.
-
Well, did ya find anything yet? 🤔
-
Again? They did this before and found nothing
-
Please search at the old boarding school sites in South Dakota, i heard stories about the one in Mission,SD
-
Sigh. The boarding schools were appalling. Makes me wonder what they did with the bodies. The sad energy is still there at White Swan, fort Simcoe. I want a restart startover from what was done here.
-
I'm sick of hearing about the past
-
If you're looking for misery, look into the past. I was taught in school about the horrible treatment natives endured in these schools, and in general. Do they not teach this anymore?
-
Anyone who has followed the Canadian Residential School abuse scandal knows that we need to be skeptical of these claims of hundreds of unmarked graves of abused, meaning murdered, Indian children. In Canada there's been many horrific claims but, as of yet, no evidence to support them. Accusations of murder need evidence. We should all be able to agree on that.
-
I remember when they did this in Canada recently and found nothing after demonizing Europeans.
-
Good work. The children should not be forgotten.
-
Nothing? 🤣🤣🤣 "Unburdened by the past"!
-
Read the book "Kamiakin" Last Hero of the Yakamas, by A.J. Splawn, for the account of the horrific manner in which the U.S. gov treated the natives of Eastern Washington.
-
They will find as many bodies as they did last time, that would be none.
