Hello friends, welcome, welcome to the fourth episode in our series, Taken, Native boarding

schools in America.

At the Hampton Institute, a place that was originally designed to be a school for free

black students, a Lakota teenager was sent home to her father before graduation.

While she was boarding at the Hampton Institute, her father was doing what he could to evolve

and follow the ways of the white man he built a new home and was eager to share it with

his Americanized daughter.

But she returned to him flushed and weak and coughing up blood.

Within days she died from tuberculosis.

A few years later, a second daughter showed signs of the same symptoms.

Hampton sent her home where she languished during her final days and was buried next to

her sister.

At the Hampton Institute, death was commonplace.

One out of every 11 native students died at the school and even more one in five were

sent home to their parents on reservations to meet the same fate.

I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.

In 1908, an anthropologist traveled to the western states to examine an outbreak of tuberculosis

and found that 20% or one in every five of the residents of Indian country had contracted

the disease.

In a effort to contain it, authorities asked the anthropologist to trace the cause of

the outbreak and he found it in the Native American boarding schools.

Richard Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian School, once wrote the following note to

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