On June 14 the Department of the Army will begin to disinter the remains of 10 Indian children from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and return the bones to their families. The School was in operation from 1879 to 1918. Kids were taken from Indian families and sent to Carlisle, where they were supposed to be taught English, Christianity, and a trade.
Some of the children died at the school and were buried there. When Linda and I visited the Military Museum in Carlisle two years ago, we drove past the sad little cemetery. Nine of the children to be returned were Sioux; one was from the Aleut Nation.
Some of the information for this post was taken from an article by Joseph Cress of the Carlisle Sentinel, reprinted in the Morning Call, (April 38, 2021), p. 9.
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