CANTON, S.D. (KELO) — In the spring, nearly 1,000 unmarked graves of indigenous children were discovered on the grounds of former Canadian boarding schools. Following international attention ...

Long ago, long before it was transformed into the Hiawatha Golf Club, something much ... the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians is that in the late 1890s, South Dakota Sen. Richard Pettigrew ...

Known by many as the Hiawatha Insane Asylum ... fifth fairways of the Hiawatha Golf Club. The Keepers of the Canton Native Asylum Story don't want South Dakota to forget. In that vein, they ...

CANTON, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - At the edge of a golf course is quite possibly ... remembering and honoring those who endured the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. Almost 400 Native Americans ...

South Dakota once had 25 of them ... is just how many bodies are buried on the grounds of Hiawatha, which is now Canton’s public golf course. I’ll take you to the cemetery tonight at ten ...

On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the floor of the senate. Its purpose was to establish “an Indian insane ... on the Hiawatha golf course.