WaPo investigation finds 3,100 students died in U.S. Native American boarding schools 1828-1970

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finesse said:
Didn't read it but from the little I've read before, I'm surprised it's that low.
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That's kind of what I'm thinking. I don't know how big that school system was and what percentage of the kids died. It's a little over 20 kids a year and a great deal of that time was pre-antibiotics and before a lot of the vaccines that killed a lot of kids. If there were a thousand kids in these schools 20 kids a year is enormous. If there are 100,000 kids in these schools, 20 kids a year sounds pretty low.

And of course that's not to take away from what a terrible legacy all this stuff was. Taking kids from families? The physical and sexual abuse. It looks like at least one of these kids was murdered and I suspect the number is greater. The last of these schools didn't close until 1970. That blows my mind.
 
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