Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians by Carla Joinson

Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians

Carla Joinson

424 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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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 patie...

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