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Search dogs and use of ground-penetrating radar continue to yield more information and context about an Indian boarding school that operated at Fort Simcoe in the Yakima Valley until 1920.
Gathering in Toppenish honors children who died at Kamloops Indian school By Tammy Ayer, Yakima Herald-Republic Published: June 3, 2021, 8:15am Share: YAKIMA — As a student at Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, Allen Retasket Sr. was a skinny little kid who wasn’t strong enough to carry a bench he was told to move. He dropped it and the sound echoed through the room. The punishment was severe, the Wenatchee man said Wednesday during a gathering on the west lawn of Legends Casino Hotel. “When I was in second grade, I was beaten into submissio...