Apple trees at Ft. Spokane, 2016
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A modern-day visitor picks an apple from one of the remaining trees. At its height, this field grew more than 600 apple trees, plus potatoes, strawberries and other crops.
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The Orchard at Ft. Spokane
Starting in 1902, the Indian children at the Fort Spokane boarding school tended this orchard. As part of “civilizing” the natives, the school taught native children to farm. The children, some as young as six years old, had to grow potatoes, wash…