But child removal is a longstanding practice, ultimately created to take away Native land.
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Now, Carlisle’s deadly past is on full display.Ĭarlisle, and boarding schools like it, are remembered as a dark chapter in the history of the ill-conceived assimilation policies designed to strip Native people of their cultures and languages by indoctrinating them with U.S. Then, in 2001, the back of the base was turned into the entrance to satisfy new security protocols. It was an accident: In 1927, to make room for a parking lot, the Army dug up the children’s graves and relocated them behind the base - out of sight. The cemetery was not supposed to be at the front entrance.
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The unquiet graves of these young casualties of the nation’s bloody Indian wars lie next to the Army War College, which trains officers for the nation’s longest war, the war on terror. The campus is an active military base, and the heightened security measures are due to post-9/11 precautions.
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And the experience was made even more jarring by the mandatory background check and armed checkpoint I faced just to visit the cemetery and the school’s remnants. It’s a chilling scene that I was unprepared for when I visited last year on the 100-year anniversary of the school’s closing. Thirteen gravestones list neither name nor tribe they simply read “UNKNOWN.” Chiseled onto the white granite headstones, arranged in the uniform rows typical of veterans’ cemeteries in the U.S., are the names and tribal affiliations of children who came to Carlisle but never left. It is a grisly monument to the country’s most infamous boarding school, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which opened in 1879 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and closed in 1918.
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Nearly 200 Native children lie buried at the entrance of the Carlisle Barracks in the “Indian Cemetery” - the first thing you see when entering one of the United States’ oldest military installations.