The Submit discovered that in lots of circumstances, kids who died had been buried “in cemeteries at or close to the colleges they attended, underscoring how, in lots of circumstances, kids’s our bodies had been by no means despatched house to their households or tribes”.
Poor record-keeping and the passage of time have made it tough to find out precisely what number of kids died on the colleges, the place circumstances had been akin to “jail camps,” one skilled informed the newspaper.
Some cemeteries are marked, whereas others “are hidden, uncared for or have been paved over,” mentioned the Submit, including that its conclusions had been primarily based on “a whole lot of hundreds” of presidency paperwork.
Youngsters died of illness, malnutrition and accident, typically beneath suspicious circumstances, in keeping with the Submit.
Biden’s speech got here after a authorities report documented the deaths of practically 1,000 kids at such colleges, although the actual quantity was all the time regarded as greater.