Finding Hiawatha
Highway 18 runs past the Canton grain elevators to Hiawatha Golf Club where the restrooms read: “Braves” and “Squaws.” Mid-fairway lies a graveyard—fenced— sunken remains of 120 men and women who died at Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. The city bought the old Asylum grounds with stipulated “recreational use.” No mention of sacred ground on …