Institutional Death And Ceremonial Healing Far From Home: The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery

Institutional Death And Ceremonial Healing Far From Home: The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery Jacqueline Fear-Segal, 2010   The remains of 186 Native American children from nearly 50 nations are buried in the Carlisle Indian School cemetery, which today stands just inside the main entrance of the U.S. Army War College, in Carlisle, PA. Taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from homes across the United States, these children—trained for American citizenship and to reject their...

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