CARLISLE, Pa. — For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, with the children’s closest living relatives poised to take custody. The …
CARLISLE, Pa. — The disinterred remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania were headed home to Rosebud Sioux tribal lands in South Dakota on Wednesday after a ceremony returning them to relatives. Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, said at the event …
