Indian Scholars

ID: 4757 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives, State Library Photograph Collection ~ Creator: Photo taken by A. P. Hadley in 1888

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

Native American children in white clothing at the Chehalis Indian reservation. There are three white children in the center of the photo: Ben Hartsuck, Miss Pickering, and Mollie Hartsuck.

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…