OPINION: Alaska s reckoning with the past could improve care for psychiatric patients adn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from adn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
There are a lot of similarities between the federally funded Indian boarding schools and locked psychiatric facilities of the early 1900s. The best examples: the loss of rights for the inmates and the amount of cruelty society was willing to accept.