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June 15, 2018

U.S. to Repatriate Remains of Native Children Who Died in Boarding Schools
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The U.S. Army says it will repatriate the remains of four Native
American children who died at the government-run Carlisle Indian
Industrial School they were forced to attend in Pennsylvania a century
ago. Native American children were sent to the Carlisle school and
similar boarding schools across the country in the late 19th and early
20th centuries to be "Americanized." The boarding schools were designed
to eliminate Native American culture, separating children from their
parents and forcing them to speak English, cut their hair and give up
traditional clothing. The U.S. Army began the exhumations Thursday and
will return the children's remains to their descendants in Wyoming,
Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota by early July.


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