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‘These innocent children’ — 11 Turtle Mountain girls identified 140 years after dying at a boarding school
An independent investigation found 14 Indigenous girls in the cemetery plot, and 11 were identified as from Turtle Mountain Reservation.
- An independent investigation by ICT, or IndiJ Public Media, uncovered the graves of 14 girls at Milwaukee's Calvary Cemetery, with 11 identified as children from North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Reservation who died at the Good Shepherd Industrial School.
- The Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd recruited 50 Indigenous girls annually, receiving federal payments including kickbacks labeled "donations" with each arrival to clear institutional debts.
- Tragedy struck as pupils died of consumption, yet nuns replaced them to maintain funding; the institution received $167 per student per semester—equivalent to $5,767 today—despite failing to control disease outbreaks.
- Alysia Lacounte, general counsel to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is leading repatriation efforts under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , a process requiring complex familial lineage tracing.
- For 140 years, the facility's role in housing Indigenous children remained largely unknown until a 2022 report alerted leaders; the school, located three miles from downtown Milwaukee, continued operating as a correctional center until closing around 1968.
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‘These innocent children’ — 11 Turtle Mountain girls identified 140 years after dying at a boarding school
Correspondence in the 1880s from nuns at Wisconsin's Good Shepherd Industrial School unmasked how the Catholic institution benefited from being a 'boarding school' for many Indigenous girls
·Cloquet, United States
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