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1) Public health assessment Ellsworth Air Force Base, Ellsworth AFB, Pennington County, South Dakota
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum's history were committed by court order. Without interpreters,...
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