Major Anderson may have been crazy, but he was not taking no for an answer. He said that all Indian children were required to attend the school. And this would not be a school that you could leave at the end of the day. This was a boarding school-the students would not only take classes there but they would live there as well in the old soldier barracks.

Though both of your parents protested loudly against Major Anderson taking you and your brothers and sisters away to the school, he told them that they had no choice. Attendance at the Fort Spokane Indian Boarding School was mandatory. All of the children on the two reservations were required to go. So you and your brothers and sisters loaded up the few possessions you had and boarded the wagon to Fort Spokane.