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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Mon Jul 19, 2021, 04:13 PM Jul 2021

Graves of Native American children are discovered in Oregon with Anglicized names

Just weeks after an alarming number of unmarked indigenous graves were found in Canada, a DailyMail.com investigation has discovered similar travesties at an Oregon gravesite that is part of a Native American boarding school.

The small graveyard, known as the Chemawa Cemetery, was part of the school for indigenous children located just north of Salem, Oregon, and is believed to contain not only unmarked graves but graves that are marked with Anglicized names – not the children’s true indigenous names.

DailyMail.com visited the cemetery and saw grave markers with ‘Anglo’ sounding names like, Daniel Boone, James Flemming, Alice Hayes, Angle Adams, Frank Howard, Benny (no last name), George, Rosie and Burns.

Several areas in the cemetery had no grave markers at all, just empty spaces. The markers may have been moved or stolen.

‘Anything is a possible,’ Marsha Small, a doctoral student at Montana State University, told DailyMail.com.

Small has used ground penetrating radar and magnetometry beneath the Chemawa Cemetery where she discovered 222 sets of remains, more than the 208 the federal government had documented.

More:
https://www.tech-gate.org/usa/2021/07/19/graves-of-native-american-children-are-discovered-in-oregon-with-anglicized-names/

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Graves of Native American children are discovered in Oregon with Anglicized names (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2021 OP
Another war atrocity Bayard Jul 2021 #1

Bayard

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1. Another war atrocity
Mon Jul 19, 2021, 04:44 PM
Jul 2021

That will never be taught in social studies classes in states with rethuglican governors.

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