An orchard near Ft. Spokane.
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Fed by the same waterways and the same soil, this turn-of-the-century orchard on the Columbia gives us a clue what the boarding school's orchard might have looked like in its most productive years.
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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…