A ground survey has confirmed the existence of 12 graves of Native children at the former Panguitch Indian Boarding School.
A survey by Utah State University researchers Molly Cannon and Judson Byrd Finley and historian Steven Lee used ground-penetrating radar and other mapping techniques in and around the former school to confirm the existence of 12 graves. Tribes believe two belong to Kaibab Paiute children and four to Shivwits children.
Members of the Kaibab, Shivwits, Cedar, Indian Peaks, Kanosh, Koosharem and Indian Peaks Bands of Paiutes, as well as the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, said they were devastated to learn of the survey in a"Our hearts go out to the families of these children as we are left to consider how best to honor and memorialize their suffering," said Ona Segundo, chairwoman of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians.
Today only a single building remains of the former school, which is now the site of a USU-operated research farm. However, during its five years of operation,"These children were taken from their families at very young ages, were not permitted to communicate in the only language they had ever known and were forced into manual labor to maintain the facility," reads the joint statement.
Across the U.S. and Canada, Native children and their families who did not wish to attend boarding schools were sometimes threatened with violence.
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