Indian Children in White Clothes

ID: 4756 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Spokane Public Library Ned M. Barnes Northwest Room ~ Creator: Photo taken by Frank Palmer in the early 1900s

This file appears in: Sanitarium Incinerator: Killing Germs and Destroying Culture

A group of small Indian boys standing outside their school building of logs. (Not Fort Spokane boarding school)

This file appears in: Sanitarium Incinerator: Killing Germs and Destroying Culture

Sanitarium Incinerator: Killing Germs and Destroying Culture

By Logan Camporeale

In 1915 tuberculosis struck the Spokane Indians hard. Four natives died and fifty more were suspected of having the disease. In response to the outbreak, the Indian Service used the site of the former…