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Unearthing the horrors of the Tulalip Indian School

Children suffered indelible wounds from sexual, mental, physical abuse

Tulalip elder Les Parks.
Tulalip elder Les Parks has amassed a history of the Tulalip Mission School and its successor, the federal Tulalip Indian School, while researching his family. His ancestors, beginning with his great-great-grandfather, attended the schools. Parks photographed on Dec. 7, 2021 in Tulalip, Washington. (Photo by Olivia Vanni/The Herald)
By Isabella Breda Everett Herald
TULALIP RESERVATION — One night at the Tulalip Indian School, someone woke Rose Fryberg and eight other children, handing them brown sacks to pack their things and ushering them out of the dormitory. “No, I didn’t know where I was going, I really didn’t,” said the elder, fondly known around Tulalip as Grandma Rose, in an interview with historians 60 years later. After a long train ride, they stopped at a platform deep in a desert, she recalled. There was no breeze in the basin of

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