The remains of five more Native American children — who died more than a century ago at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania — will be disinterred this fall and returned to descendants.
The remains to be moved this fall include those of Edward Upright from the North Dakota Spirit Lake Tribe and of 13-year-old Amos LaFromboise of South Dakota’s Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe. LaFromboise died in 1879, only 20 days after his arrival at the Carlisle Indian Industrial school.
The school is now home to the U.S. Army War College. This will be the sixth such disinterment operation at Carlisle since 2017 as the military transfers remains to living family members for re-burial.
Thousands of Native children were taken to such schools and forced to assimilate to white society.
The Office of Army Cemeteries said the latest disinterment of remains will take place beginning Sept. 11. It will be the sixth such disinterment operation at Carlisle since 2017 as the military transfers remains to living family members for reburial. Twenty-eight children have been returned so far, according to cemetery officials.
More than 10,000 children from more than 140 tribes passed through the school between 1879 and 1918, including famous Olympian Jim Thorpe.
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