DOD to Disinter Remains of Native American Students From Carlisle Barracks Cemetery
March 01, 2025
March 01, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 1 (TNSFR) -- The Department of the Defense has announced plans to disinter the remains of nineteen Native American students buried at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
The students, who passed away between 1880 and 1910 while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, belonged to the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Their names include Wallace Perryman, Belle Cahoe, Wash E. He, Tabitha Carroll, Jane Lumpfoot . . .
The students, who passed away between 1880 and 1910 while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, belonged to the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Their names include Wallace Perryman, Belle Cahoe, Wash E. He, Tabitha Carroll, Jane Lumpfoot . . .