Five boys from northeast Nebraska got on a train bound for Pennsylvania, and the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School, more than a century ago. Three never made it home.
Five boys from northeast Nebraska got on a train bound for Pennsylvania, and the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School, more than a century ago. Three never made it home.
Two Nebraska boys are among the hundreds buried at a boarding school notorious for stripping Native kids of their culture and language. Now, the Winnebago Tribe is fighting to get them back.
CARLISLE, Penn. Smudged sage billowed into the air on Sept. 19, as members from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe of South Dakota and Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota carried small wooden coffins containing their relatives’ remains to the tribal van that would bring them home after nearly 150 years away.
Thomas Suckley and George Bears Arm, two young men from the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, died while attending the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Their bodies remain buried in a cemetery near the site of the former school.