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The film explores the history of the Carlisle school, which was the first in the country designed to conform Native Americans into the ways and culture of White America. It included cutting the students’ hair, banning their native languages and customs and forcing them into military-style, remedial education with an emphasis on Christianity.

The proposed site plan also includes a boulevard lined with flags from every tribal nation that went to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Remains complete their journey across country

Since August 2017, the Army has disinterred 22 remains of Native American children from the cemetery.

Aleut family members will return the remains of one child to Saint Paul Island in Alaska, and Rosebud Sioux descendants will take nine children back to a tribal veteran’s cemetery in South Dakota or to private family plots.