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Students posing at the entrance to Chemawa Indian School in 1905. (Courtesy of Pacific University Archives)Courtesy of Pacific University Archives
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“We know what happened, what kept happening,” a reporter wrote in 1915 after a visit to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem. “We took their lands, we enslaved their women Oh, well, let’s forget that and remember that now for many years our Government has been meting out full justice to our red brothers and sisters.”
This sentiment was progress, of a sort. An acknowledgement that the United States government’s 19th-century Indian policy, celebrated for years in popular culture, was racist and brutal.
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