US EditionThe remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
Seventeen children from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School were reburied in Oklahoma as part of ongoing efforts to address historic abuses and honor Native American ancestors.
- Last month the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma reburied 16 children exhumed from a Pennsylvania cemetery in Concho, Oklahoma with services attended by several hundred.
- Since repatriations began at Carlisle in 2017, 58 returned bodies remain among 118 graves with Native American or Alaska Native names at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
- Forensic experts are working to resolve contradictory National Archives records and mismatched headstones and graves, as two exhumed remains failed to match markers and one headstone showed the wrong year.
- The Cheyenne and Arapaho government said burial ceremonies are vital for justice and healing, and the tribal governor’s office adopted children when descendants could not be located under U.S. Army affidavit rules.
- A 2024 Interior Department review found at least 973 Native American children died at 400 federally funded schools, while tribes face U.S. Army policy on cemetery remains and a Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska case under appeal.
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Remains, stories of Native American students being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to their families and tribes, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes…
Remains and stories of 17 Native American students reclaimed from Pa. cemetery
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S. government’s campaign to erase Native American tribes by wiping their children’s identities. A few years later, Matavito, a Cheyenne boy, and Leah, an Arapaho girl, were dead. Persistent efforts by their tribes have finally brought them home. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of O…
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The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to their families and tribes, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the Seminole Nation of Ok
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