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 ...

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 ...

CANTON, S.D. (KELO) – It was a somber day at the Hiawatha Golf Course in Canton today as people gathered to honor and remember the lives of over 100 Native Americans buried there. In between the ...

The old building is gone, but a cemetery still is on the grounds of the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians in Canton, S.D., today the Hiawatha Golf Course. Hear people talk about needed improvements.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

From 1903 to 1934, the BIA operated the Hiawatha Indian Insane Asylum (also known as the Canton Asylum for Insane ... s graveyard sits on a city-owned golf course between the fourth and fifth ...