A report on Native American boarding schools shows their horrors

SOPHIA TETOFF was 12 years old in 1901 when she was sent 4,000 miles from her island home in the Bering Sea to Carlisle, an Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania. Sophia was a member of Alaska’s Unangax people. Five years later, she died from tuberculosis. She was buried in the school’s cemetery and largely forgotten. Her name on her headstone was misspelt. Her tribe’s name was incorrect. Sophia was one of thousands of children separated from their communities, often forcibly, and sent to Indian boarding schools.