WARNING This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you feel triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. In Canada, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419.
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Peter Lengkeek, chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, stands outside of the Crow Creek Tribal School, next door to the former Catholic mission where remains were recently discovered.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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A memorial for Father Pius, one of the mission's first priests, sits outside of the former boarding school where more than 38 hidden children's graves were recently discovered by the tribe.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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A statue of the Virgin Mary sits outside the site of a former Roman Catholic boarding school in Stephan on the Crow Creek Reservation.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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A student is received into the sodality at the Immaculate Conception Mission around 1960.
Photo from "History of Immaculate Conception Mission"
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Students at the Immaculate Conception Mission school in the 1930s.
From mission correspondence letters via Marquette University
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A photo from the "History of Immaculate Conception Mission." The caption reads: "Reverend Justin Snyder O.S.B. 1931-1943 entertained by Alex Thunder Horse."
Photo from "History of Immaculate Conception Mission"
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Jennifer YoungBear, Roberta "Kay Bird" Crows Breast and Susan Paulson pose for a photo together at the site of the former Immaculate Conception Mission School. Paulson and Crows Breast attended the school in the 1960s.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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Susan Paulson of Bismarck stands at the former Immaculate Conception Boarding School in Stephan, S.D., where she was enrolled as a child.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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Alta Marie Bruce attended the Immaculate Conception Mission from 1967-1971 from Belcourt, N.D., on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Bruce died in 2020.
Courtesy Zachary King
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Roberta "Kay Bird" Crows Breast of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, stands on the grounds of the former Immaculate Conception Boarding School in Stephan. She attended the school as a child.
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The facility of the Immaculate Conception Mission School built in 1953 has begun to crumble and is awaiting demolition. The school operated from 1887-1975, when the Crow Creek Tribe gained control over the school.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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A statue of the Infant of Prague stands outside of the former Immaculate Conception Mission in Stephan on the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe reservation in central South Dakota.
Amelia Schafer, ICT and Journal staff
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This story is co-published by the Rapid City Journal and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the South Dakota area.
Amelia Schafer is the Indigenous Affairs reporter for ICT and the Rapid City Journal. She is of Wampanoag and Montauk-Brothertown Indian Nation descent. She is based in Rapid City. You can contact her at aschafer@rapidcityjournal.com .
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