Native children's remains to be moved from Army cemetery
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. Now they're heading home.
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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. Now they're heading home.
The children to be disinterred came from the Washoe, Catawba, Umpqua, Ute, Oneida and Aleut tribes
Disinterment at cemetery in Pennsylvania comes as US investigates abuses against Native children at boarding schools.The US military has begun disinte
The bodies of eight Native Americans who died at the government-run boarding school more than a hundred years ago will be returned to their families.
The Army has started disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school that operated in Pennsylvania between 1879 and 1918. The disinterment process began over the weekend in a cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle.