The bodies of more than 80 Native American children are buried at the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in central Nebraska
“Absolutely, we know the children were living in fear," gaiashkibos said. “There were no hugs from mom or grandma. There were no songs sung. Everything was foreign to them."
“More than anything there was a clear agenda to cut the ties between their people, their homeland, their culture," said King, a member of the Navajo Nation whose father attended one of the boarding schools. “They wanted to get them away as far as they could.” The cemetery would have been forgotten too, if not for residents who for 30 years had been searching documents and the land around their community for the burial site. Their effort was given a boost about six years ago by the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project, which included advisers from some of the tribes whose ancestors attended the school and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
But while the researchers accounted for the deaths, they couldn't find where the children were buried. There were plenty of theories from residents and even former students, but it took study of maps and aerial photos to narrow down a few options. An initial effort to find remains using ground-penetrating radar wasn’t successful, but last summer an Iowa man volunteered to come to the site with dogs that are trained to detect the faint odor of decaying remains.
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