Photos: Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, search for the cemetery
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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Judi gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, watches a team from the Midwest Archaeological Center use ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. gaiashkibos' mother and aunts attended the school. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center sets up a grid system to use ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday, October 27, 2022.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses septs up a grid to use ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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A team from the Midwest Archaeological Center uses ground penetrating radar and other equipment to determine if human remains are buried where detection dogs previously signaled the site of a potential burial ground for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Thursday.
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Judi gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, takes a moment after detection dogs indicated they identified a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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Jim Peters and Rocky, one of his detection dogs, search for a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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Ben Crawford, a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act assistant with the Winnebago Tribal Historic Preservation Office, watches as detection dogs search for a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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A bundle of sage placed by Judi gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, where detection dogs indicated they identified a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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Judi gaiashkibos, the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, takes a moment after placing a bundle of sage where detection dogs indicated they identified a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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A map of Genoa, Neb., with estimated sites of a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the pink and green boxes near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal. Photographed in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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Jim Peters and his detection dogs, and representatives with History Nebraska, search for a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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A paw print and footprint in the mud as Jim Peters and his detection dogs search for a potential burial site for children who died while at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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A neighborhood has built up around some of the remaining buildings from the Genoa Indian Industrial School of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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Judi gaiashkibos' mother attended the Genoa Indian Industrial School before it was closed in 1934. A member of the Ponca, she is also a co-chair on the Community Advisors Council for the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and the executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. Photographed at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln on Wednesday, July 21, 2021.
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Flags from 40 tribes represent the students at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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Murals painted on plaster were used as patterns for students when making harnesses at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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Students made their own shoes at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On display at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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Shoe nails, from students making their own shoes at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are still in window sill boards at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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A pair of beaded gloves taken from a student upon their arrival at the Genoa Indian Industrial School. The gloves were given back to the student after leaving the school and then donated to the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center by the family years later. Photographed in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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An 1899 map shows the Genoa Indian Industrial School and a cemetery nearby. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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A name is etched in the brick from 1911 at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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Flags from 40 tribes represent the students at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Â
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Susana Geliga Grazales, a member of the Lakota and co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project. Photographed at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on Thursday, July 29, 2021.
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A stone commemorates the unknown number of Native children who died at the Genoa Indian Industrial School in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A model of the campus of the Genoa Indian Industrial School of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
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A blacksmithing building still stands from the Genoa Indian Industrial School of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is now privately owned. Photographed at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
