Shining light on the dark age of the Tulalip Boarding School
TULALIP — Standing in front of the last remnant of the boarding school on Tulalip Bay Thursday evening, Tulalip leaders tearfully shared their families’ stories.
Rochelle Lubbers, chief administrative officer for the tribes, is the great-granddaughter of Elsie Price, who attended the boarding school.
“She entered that boarding school at the same age as my youngest child,” Lubbers said. “And when I looked at him today, and I realize how much love and support he needs to thrive.”
From 1857 to 1932, hundreds of Native youth from across the state and as far as Alaska were taken to the Tulalip Boarding School. There, they were beaten for speaking their Native languages. They began industrial jobs as elementary age students. They didn’t get to see their parents for ten months of the year, and many of them never came home.
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