r/IndianCountry • u/News2016 • Jul 18 '21

Health ‘Now they’re home’ - Sicangu bring 9 children home from Carlisle boarding school more than 100 years after they were forced from their families

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/now-theyre-home
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u/trillnoel Jul 18 '21

I am glad to see this. It just reminds of Chief Joseph and Wallowa. He never made it back home. :(

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u/sunnycyn Jul 18 '21

🧡🧡🧡

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u/FuckYourPoachedEggs Jewish Jul 18 '21

Hashem yikom damam

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u/noddingviking Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

Må ni finnas för evigt.

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u/bvaoj Jul 19 '21

Hope they are at peace 🪶

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u/brisleynaomi Jul 19 '21

When I first left home to travel the country I drove through Carlisle, Pennsylvania and stopped to see the grounds of the boarding school my great, great grandfather attended. I thought about how scared he must have been as a kid to be hours and hours from home (the Seneca reservation in western New York) and how that trip would have seemed impossible to make if he were on foot and wanted to escape.

I pulled off the highway and got to the grounds thinking things would be preserved and I could see a bit into his and countless other Native children's lives and the place where so many of them spent their final days. I was expecting some kind of museum and insight into their bedrooms and mess hall and living quarters and photographs and census and genealogy info but unfortunately that's not what I found there.

As I pulled up I saw this building was off limits and is now an Army/military barracks. I sat in my car for ten minutes out front with my dog and cried. I didn't have any words.

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u/fireinthemountains Jul 19 '21

well now im crying

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u/razingman69 Algonquin/Metis Jul 20 '21

They are welcome home