An elopement, quarry carving and letters home: records shed light on Pipestone’s Indian boarding school
Raymond Derby never knew much about his great-grandparents’ lives a century ago at an Indian boarding school in southwestern Minnesota — only that they were among the thousands of students who attended the school over a 60-year period, from 1893 to 1953. Today, however, he knows his great-grandmother was a “strong-willed” woman who ran away […]