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Death at Canton Asylum

Tree Burial of the Oglala Sioux near Ft. Laramie, Wyo. courtesy National Archives

Tree Burial of the Oglala Sioux near Ft. Laramie, Wyo. courtesy National Archives

Robert Brings Plenty, a Sioux Indian from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation, was one of  Canton Asylum’s first patients. He lasted less than one year, dying of (probably) an epileptic episode on May 20, 1903. Continue reading