Two Bering Strait children taken to Carlisle boarding school over a century ago return home

Two Bering Strait children taken to Carlisle boarding school over a century ago return home

By Ariana Crockett O'Harra Over 120 years ago, two Alaska Native children from the Bering Strait region were taken to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a notorious boarding school. Both died of tuberculosis and were buried there. Now, over a century later, they have come home. One child, a girl named Tummassak, originally from Shishmaref, arrived at Carlisle on November 14, 1897. She died April 8, 1900. Another, Edward Angalook of Unalakle…