In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Army announced it is returning the remains of 10 more indigenous children. This is the fourth time the army is returning the 100-year-old bodies to their home communities.
McCleave says there are more than 200 children buried there, and 14 of the graves are marked with an “unknown” sign.
In 2018, Tribal Nations turned to the U.N. in an effort to obtain a full accounting of those who went missing at schools like the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
A legacy of unmarked graves
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) released a statement in response to the revelations of 215 unmarked graves in Canada.
“The U.S. Indian boarding school era was an integral part of a centuries-long systematic, genocidal campaign by the United States government to erase Native peoples, cultures, and civilizations.”
“The U.S. has never acknowledged its assimilative boarding school policies and refused to provide an accounting of the children that went missing and deaths that occurred at Indian boarding schools in this country,” a NABS spokesman said.
