21-10-2016 00:46 via ktva.com

Alaska Native remains could return home from Pennsylvania

A small group of people are working with the U.S. Army to bring home the remains of 15 Alaska Natives who attended a boarding school in Pennsylvania more than a century ago.
The Carlisle Industrial Indian School was founded in 1879 by Richard Henry Pratt. The Army officer created the military-style school on the belief that Native Americans needed to be “civilized” and that the federal government was holding them back by segregating them. Its goal was to assimilate Native Americans i
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