These grants—canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities—included $282,000 that would have gone to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Commission and enabled the digitization of more than 100,000 pages of boarding school records. An investigation commissioned by former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found at least 973 children had died and been buried at Indian boarding schools during the program’s 150-year history. The legacy of historical and intergenerational trauma caused by the boarding school era upon victims, their families, and their communities echoes down generations. Official records indicate he fell victim to the “white plague” of tuberculosis that was rampant at Indian boarding schools. Grave marker of Edward Spott at the Carlisle Indian Boarding School cemetery in Pennsylvania.