OUR HISTORY: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects: Assessing Blame for Deaths of Indian Boarding School Students

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Monday, November 15, 2021

Assessing Blame for Deaths of Indian Boarding School Students

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— Dr. Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere) November 15, 2021

WASHINGTON —

Editor’s note: This report reveals information about illness and death in federal Indian boarding schools that some readers could find triggering or upsetting. Discretion to sensitive groups is advised.

On June 16, 1913, Pauline Peazzoni, a 13-year-old Maidu girl from the Sierra Nevada of Northern California, lost her battle with the “white plague,” tuberculosis.