This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds in Carlisle, Pa., in March 1891, wearing the clothing they arrived in. (John N. Choate/Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center via AP)
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S. government’s campaign to erase Native American tribes by wiping their children’s identities. A few years later, Matavito, a Cheyenne boy, and Leah, an Arapaho girl, were […]
NOV. 7, 2025
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