Marsha Small, a Montana State University doctoral student, has been using ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves at the Chemawa Indian School cemetery in Salem, Oregon. So far, she has found 222 sets of remains at the school, which remains in operation.
The small graveyard, known as the Chemawa Cemetery, was part of the school for indigenous children located just north of Salem, Oregon, and is believed to contain not only unmarked graves but graves that are marked with Anglicized names-not the children’s true indigenous names.
The Oregon cemetery is part of the Chemawa School, an off-reservation boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, within the Department of the Interior.
Since 1880, thousands of Native American and Alaska Native children have attended Chemawa Indian School, and their descendents hold firmly to the conviction that, because of the sacrifice of their ancestors, Chemawa belongs to the Indians. Students standing at the entrance of the Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem.
Many of the grave markers at Chemawa cemetery in Salem, Oregon are listed with ‘Anglo-sounding’ names like Clarence Bardwell In July, DailyMail.com exclusively visited the Chemawa Cemetery at the Chemawa Indian School in Oregon, the oldest continuously-operated residential boarding school for Native American students in the United States and one of only …
Buried at Chemawa Indian Boarding School In her thesis, “A Voice for the Children of Chemawa Cemetery”, which she completed this fall, Small reports that her surveys indicate there are possibly…
Seeking 1940 chemawa indian school cemetery plot map. In our publication Beaver Briefs (V 25-1, 1993) the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society (Salem, OR) made reference to a “master plat plan created in 1940 by W. B. SHOWALTER.” showing burials in the Chemawa Cemetery. We are attempting to upgrade/update information about that cemetery, …
chemawa indian school cemetery – salem, or. Most of the grave here are marked just like this one; they’re arranged pretty much by year. The question remains: why did no one come to take these children home?
Marsha Small, a Montana State University doctoral student, uses ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves, including at the chemawa indian school cemetery in Salem, Oregon. The cemetery…
There are no raised gravestones at Chemawa Cemetery, on the grounds of Chemawa Indian School. Rudimentary markers, about the size of a shoebox lid, are flush with the ground, covered with moss and…
