American Indian Boarding Schools: A Small US Town Digs for the Truth | Foreign Correspondent

On the frozen plains of Nebraska, a grim search is underway. The community is trying to locate an old cemetery that was once on the grounds of the US Indian Genoa Industrial School. - Subscribe: ‘A cemetery at a school is not the norm – that you could die and then you’re gonna be buried out the door?’ Judi gaiashkibos, Commission on Indian Affairs, Nebraska The State Archaeologist is using ground penetrating radar to try and locate an old cemetery that is somewhere on the grounds of the former Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School. The Genoa school was one of a network of institutions for Native American children set up in the 19th and 20th centuries across the . Their purpose was to assimilate indigenous children into the white man’s world. By 1926, it’s estimated more than 80% of Native American children were enrolled in these institutions. “We’ve been severed from our language, from our culture, from our practices over a whole course