Prentice Reid

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The school physician was called in, and once he surmised what had happened he asked Lucy why she had murdered her baby. Lucy could only glance at the matron and reply: “So she wouldn’t know. She say it is a sin, to marry so. Her God will burn me forever if He finds out. Now she will tattle to her God and He will burn me.”
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928
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