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Friday, September 6, 2024

Army Begins Disinterment and Return of Remains for 11 Native Children Who Died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School

 

The left side of the Carlisle Main Post Cemetery after last summer’s disinterments concluded.  While 32 children have gone home in the last seven years, more than 160 are still waiting. (Photo/Jenna Kunze)

By Native News Online Staff | 

 

This week, the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries began its annual process of disinterring, identifying, and returning the remains of eleven Native American children— who died more than a century ago at a government-run Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania— home to their closest living relatives.

Those former students include William Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield, James Cornman, and Samuel Flying Horse from the Oglala Sioux Tribe; Albert Mekko from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and Alfred Charko and Kati Rosskidwits from the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.  One additional tribal nation receiving their relative's remains wishes to remain anonymous, according to a spokesperson from the Office of Army Cemeteries.

The students are among nearly 200 who died and were buried in the government’s care between 1880 and 1910 while attending the nation’s flagship Indian boarding school, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Penn. 

Over the last seven years, the Army has returned 32 children’s remains back to their relatives.  Each project was conducted over about a month-long period during the summer by a team of professionals from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Center of Expertise for Curation.  The team worked with tribal nations to carry out the process of exhuming and identifying each child’s remains.  The Army confirmed to NNO that it will be disinterring and returning an additional 18 children in 2025.  

This disinterment project began on September 3, 2024, and will end on October 14, according to the Office of Army Cemeteries. 

In 1879, the Army’s Carlisle Barracks became the site of the nation’s first government-run Indian boarding school.  Operating under the motto ofkill the Indian, save the man,school administrators tried to forcibly assimilate 7,800 Native American children from more than 140 tribal nations through a mix of Western-style education and hard labor. 

Before it closed and the property was transferred to the Army in 1918, the school buried the bodies of at least 194 Indigenous children in the school cemetery, including 14 who are marked withunknowngrave markers. 

Many students’ deaths were announced in the local newspaper at the time, noting causes of death asthat dread disease, consumptionor tuberculosis or detailing circumstances of unknown sickness. 

LINK: https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/army-begins-disinterment-and-return-of-remains-for-11-native-children-who-died-at-carlisle-indian-boarding-school

READ: Esquire: The U.S. Is Standing in the Way of Repatriating the Bodies of Native Kids Who Died at the Carlisle School

“As long as the Army can avoid scrutiny and accountability and maintain absolute control over the remains, it doesn’t care if tribes’ rights as sovereigns are abused in the process,” said Greg Werkeiser, an attorney with Cultural Heritage Partners, which has joined with the Native American Rights Fund in representing the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska in a lawsuit over the issue, along with the tribe’s general counsel, Danelle Smith, at Big Fire Law & Policy Group. “Asking tribes to subserviate themselves once again just continues the Army’s tradition of abuses,” Werkeiser said. “Some traditions need to end.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62044883/native-repatriation-army/

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