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The Heart of the Youth Community Powwow runs Friday, May 28 and the online spectacle will be held in conjuncti...

‘Kill the Indian, save the man’: Stories of Indian boarding schools still echo Monday, January 18, 2021 Gaylord News WASHINGTON – About 180 white tombstones – each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School – stand row-by-row in the dewy grass of central Pennsylvania, bearing the names of those who died while being forced to learn the white man’s way. From 1,500 to 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the Carlisle school, sai...

By Addison Kliewer, Miranda Mahmud and Brooklyn Wayland/Gaylord News Jan. 14, 2021 Recent arrivals at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose with upperclassmen. About 8,000 students attended the school before it closed in 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center) Rose White Thunder, a Sioux student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1883, was one of the only women photographed to demonstrate the transformation of Native students befo...