Bodies of 102 Native American schoolchildren discovered.
The discovery of the remains of more than 100 Indian school children and teenagers in Nebraska, some of whom may have been massacred by US officials at the time, plunged the United States, like its northern neighbor, into organized indigenous crime in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to the Guardian newspaper, a group of researchers in a group called the Digital Reconciliation Project of the Genoa Indian School of Nebraska discovered 102 bodies in a boarding school for indigenous children.
The remains of these corpses in the infamous schools run by the US federal government from 1884 to 1934, known for their cruelty and cruel punishments, confirm the organized crime of white American rulers against the heirs of the continent’s ancient inhabitants.
This is the most important finding of the research group, which has been working since 2017 as part of a collaborative project between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the American Genoa Indian School Foundation, and descendants and representatives of the five Nebraska tribes.
According to the group’s researchers, the names of 102 deceased students were found from sources including school newspaper archives and newsletters. The researchers also said that official documents were destroyed or scattered when the school closed.
Margaret Jacobs, a professor of history at UNL University and co-director of the project, said some of the names may be duplicates, but the school death toll, which admitted thousands of other students from more than 40 tribes in its 50-year history, is likely to be much higher. The names are expected to be released after consultations with tribal leaders and after efforts to trace relatives of the dead.
“These kids died at school,” Jacobs told the local Omaha World Herald. They did not get a chance to go home. “I think the descendants deserve to know what happened to their ancestors.”
