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Bodies of 10 Native American students to be returned to living family members
The remains of the children, who died between 1880 and 1910 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, will be sent to the closest living descendent. Author: Harri Leigh (FOX43) Updated: 11:36 PM EDT June 13, 2021
CARLISLE, Pa. The remains of 10 children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School are scheduled to be exhumed on Thursday, June 17.
The remains of the children, who died between 1880 and 1910, will be sent to the closest living descendent.
One student, Sophia Tetoff, came from the Aleut in Alaska. The other nine Lucy Take the Tail (Pretty Eagle), Rose Long Face (Little Hawk), Ernest Knocks Off (White Thunder), Dennis Strikes First (Blue Tomahawk), Maud Little Girl (Swift Bear), Friend Hollow Horn Bear, Warren Painter (Bear Paints Dirt), Alvan (Kills Seven Horses), Dora Her Pipe (Brave Bull) came from the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota, according to a U.
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In this May 6, 2016, file photo, Russell Eagle Bear, the historic preservation officer for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, stands in his office in in Rosebud, S.D. A group of tribes pushing to place Pe Sla, a site that s sacred to the Great Sioux Nation, into a federal trust has come up against the state of South Dakota. The state in April appealed a federal decision to take the land purchased by the tribes into trust. (AP Photo/Regina Garcia Cano, File)
The remains of 10 children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Cumberland County between 1880 and 1910 are slated to be exhumed this summer.