30 Alaska Native Youths Buried at Boarding Schools Are Coming Home

30 Alaska Native youths buried at boarding schools are coming home

Around 30 Alaska Native students who died more than 100 years ago at boarding schools designed to sever connections to their culture are returning to be reburied in their homelands.

Forgotten No More: Alaska community embraces long-lost student’s return

The remains of an Alaska Native student who died while attending the Carlisle boarding school finally made it home to Shishmaref more than 100 years later

About 30 Alaska Native youths buried at boarding schools decades ago are now returning home

Around 30 Alaska Native students who died more than 100 years ago at boarding schools designed to sever connections to their culture are returning to be reburied in their homelands. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Alaska Native and Indigenous…