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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. 

Portfolio

Investigative series 

  • 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.

  • Three words in the Declaration of Independence paint a cruel picture of Natives.

History  

  • This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.

  • This was the worst slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. history. Few remember it.

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

  • Powhatan and his people: The 15,000 Indians shoved aside by Jamestown.
  • Descendants of enslaved man, plantation owner unearth past.

Native Americans​​​

Analysis​​​

  • In District’s Ward 8, economic recovery is a world away.

  • Money as a weapon. The spending of American cash in the Iraq war.
  • For car dealers, the hardest sell is on Capitol Hill.​
  • Building Blackwater. Iraq war shapes firm's fortunes.

Human Interest

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

  • Claws out as wildlife center, chicken joint owner brawl over planned expansion.

  • A teen spotted a rare pair of birds in D.C. Then came another surprise.

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

 

 

Crisis coverage

  • Inside the race to contain 240 million gallons of raw sewage.

  • U.S. soldiers play vital role in Haitian shantytown.

  • Aboard a shallow-water gas rig, regulatory confusion hits.

  • A family business beached. How Katrina dealt a blow to an already precarious shrimp enterprise.

  • Girl’s rescue offers a rare moment of joy in Haiti

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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A young boy pays his respects as the remains of three Native American children from the Fort Belknap Indian reservation pass after they were exhumed from Carlisle, Penn. Dana covered the story.

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