
Remains of 'Lost Alaskans' sent to Oregon mental hospital a century ago are recovered, returned home
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Between 1904 and the 1960s, about 5,500 Alaskans were sent away to a mental hospital in Portland, OR. Their fates are being uncovered by volunteers and made available to their families.
The weeklong Koyukon Athabascan burial ceremony in September was traditional in all ways but one: McCormick died in 1931. Her remains were only recently identified and returned to her family.
McCormick was one of about 5,500 Alaskans between 1904 and the 1960s who were committed to a hospital in Portland, Oregon, after being deemed by a jury "really and truly insane," a criminal offense.
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