A monument to the students who attended the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School stands in Genoa, Neb. Photos by Rebecca S. Gratz for the Flatwater Free Press-
Carolyn Fiscus holds a circa 1924 photograph of her grandmother, Laura Eliza DeCora (left), and aunt, Mildred Lowe, in Winnebago, Neb., on March 11, 2025. Lowe died at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School in 1930, but the location of her remains is unknown.
Carolyn Fiscus knows where her aunt, Mildred Lowe, spent her final days.She knows the 12-year-old Winnebago girl became gravely ill in the winter of 1930 at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial Boarding School. She knows Mildred died.She does not know where her aunt was buried. It’s a mystery Fiscus pondered as she sat in a folding chair beneath the sweltering sun in Jul...
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