The remains of over a dozen children who died at a late-1800s Indian boarding school will soon be returned to their families. The U.S. Army has announced plans to dig up the graves of 19 students buried at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. There are rough estimates that around a thousand children died in the care of the industrial schools, where the kids had their hair cut and were forbidden to speak Indigenous languages or wear traditional clothing. The bodies of the students will be exhumed and given to their closest living family member.
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