I wonder if Alaska has ever apologized to the families they separated for all those years? Some children were never returned to their villages. Many of the children were sent out of state, to the Chemawa boarding school in Salem, Oregon, for instance. Many more were sent to Mt. Edgecumbe boarding school in Sitka in southeast Alaska. Edgecumbe is still open today and I gather it's a popular place these days.

However, in those earlier years tuberculosis ran rampant among those youngsters who had no inherited resistance to the disease. Until recently there were still dozens, if not hundreds, of caskets stored in a warehouse...

It is hard to accept that the powers thought that forced assimilation was the right thing to do but it appears they did. The arrogance of people who know they are right has always been scary. And dangerous.