Buried in History: The Native Children who Died in U.S. Boarding Schools and Were Not Reported

The U.S. Interior Did Not Report Thousands of Children's Deaths in U.S. Boarding Schools

Thousands of Native children died in U.S. boarding schools that were not reported by the U.S. Interior Department in its report. Suffering from malnutrition, diseases and abuse, the largest number of unreported children's deaths were at Chemawa Indian Training School in Oregon, followed by Haskell Indian Industrial School in Kansas. The largest total number of deaths were at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

The year-long investigation by The Washington Post documented that 3,104 students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 -- three times as many deaths as reported by the U.S. Interior Department. The actual number of deaths could be as high as 40,000, since deaths of children in unmarked graves were either never reported or the records were destroyed.


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