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Pre-K through 12th grade teachers and aspiring teachers in South Dakota can earn free college credit hours this summer while deepening their understanding of the state’s Indigenous people.
The tribe set aside July 14 as Tiyata Glipi Anpetu, an official tribal holiday that recognizes the return of the remains of the nine children buried at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School cemetery
Ernest Knocks Off was 18 when he arrived at the Carlisle boarding school in 1879. He was one of many young Native people who fought — in his case, to the death — to retain their language and culture.
Ernest Knocks Off was 18 when he arrived at the Carlisle boarding school in 1879. He was one of many young Native people who fought – in his case, to the death – to retain their language and culture.
View Comments A group of Rosebud Sioux children walk down a grassy hill, long hair blowing in the wind, toward the waters of Whetstone Bay, glistening blue, where a steamboat that will take them to a new kind of boarding school in Pennsylvania waits. They don’t know they’ll never see their parents again, or that their parents, and generations after them will fight to get them back. More than 140 years later, the remains of nine of the children returned Friday to South Dakota after a two-day drive from the former Carlisle Indian Reform School. “This is a common sorrow we share, but o...