Domestic abuse: how the U.S. government is violating Native Americans' human rights.(Human Rights)(domestic application of international rights standards)

PICKSTOWN, S.D.--

SANDY WADE WAS 6 WHEN SHE was sent away to St. Paul's Indian Mission, a boarding school overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on the Yankton Sioux reservation. At first, things weren't so bad. She got three meals a day--a welcome change from home, where she and her nine brothers and sisters often went hungry. But, as she discovered, not everybody fared so well, especially younger boys like her brother Frank "Butch" Wright, who lived across campus in St. Katharine's dormitory, a red brick building with bars on the windows and ...

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