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Snapshots of the stories in The Washington Post that were part of Dana and her team’s award-winning series on the abuses and deaths of Native American children at boarding schools. 

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Investigative series â€‹

  • More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures.

  • ‘In the name of God.’ For decades, Catholic priests, brothers and sisters raped or molested Native American children who were taken from their homes by the U.S. government and forced to live at remote boarding schools, a Post investigation found.

  • They took the children. The hidden legacy of Indian boarding schools in the United States.

  • ‘12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories.

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Native Americans  â€‹

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History​

  • She lived on the streets. In a powerful death notice, her family explained why.

  • Bird rarely seen in the U.S. sends people flocking to Virginia.

  • The Irish are repaying a favor from 173 years ago in Native Americans’ fight against the coronavirus.

  • Anger, then relief after Pentagon restores Navajo code talker webpages.

  • Powhatan and his people: The 15,000 Indians shoved aside by Jamestown.

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Analysis​

  • We are still here’ – Native Americans dispel myths by living their truth.

  • D.C.’s great rat migration – and how they survived during the pandemic.

  • How conjoined twin turtles were surgically separated in Virginia
  • Aboard a shallow-water gas rig, regulatory confusion keeps crew waiting.

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Human Interest​

  • How Native Americans were vaccinated for smallpox, then pushed off their land.

  • Archaeologists find location of Native American villages noted by John Smith

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Crisis coverage

  • Descendants of enslaved man, plantation owner unearth past at Maryland cabin

  • More suspects possible in Red Lake shootings, officials say

To read the latest on Dana’s articles in The Washington Post click here

Dana Hedspeth

Dana at the first presidential apology to survivors of Indian boarding schools in Phoenix, Ariz., with Jim LaBelle, an Alaskan Native who attended an Indian boarding school.

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Dana speaks with a boarding school survivor at Montana’s Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

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Dana covered the story of how the remains of three children from the Fort Belknap Indian tribe came back to their land after being exhumed from the Carlisle Indian boarding school. A young boy pays his respect.

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