The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
by
Carla Joinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often...