In February 2022, my beau (a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate elder) and I attended a "signing ceremony," one of the steps necessary for the return of the remains of SWO children who had died at the notorious Carlisle Indian School.
Now Keloland reports that Amos LaFramboise will be coming home in September. Rae Yost reports in Tribal student’s remains to be returned to South Dakota:
The remains of a South Dakota student who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania will be returned to the state later this year, according to the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC).
Amos LaFramboise of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation was one of several students who died between 1880 and 1910 at the school. An estimated 200 students died while the school operated from 1879 and to 1918.
The Army intends to begin disinterment activities on Sept. 11. It will be conducted under the authority of Army Regulation 290–5, in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation.
LaFramboise is one of five individuals whose remains will be returned to their relatives and home states.
A KELOLAND News story from Oct. 6, 2021, said Tamara St. John, a tribal historian for Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, and the tribe were working to bring the remains of students who died at Carlisle home. The remains of two of six children who were at Carlisle were still at the school’s burial site in 2021.
LaFramboise died 20 days after arriving at Carlisle. He was the first to die at the school. . . .
St. John had been frustrated with the snail's pace of the process but her persistence has prevailed and the boy finally is coming home.
The boys' relatives gathered to sign affidavits yesterday that will allow the tribes to begin the repatriation process.
— Jeremy Turley (@jeremyjturley) February 20, 2022
"We are committed to them and to bringing them home like the chiefs that they are," said Sisseton Wahpeton tribal historian Tamara St. John. pic.twitter.com/rWxS0Cs4kl
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Screengrab: The gravestones of Amos LaFromboise and Edward Upright contain spelling errors in a cemetery near the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Photos provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center via the Grand Forks Herald.
There's more about Amos LaFramboise and Edward Upright at the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, maintained by Dickinson College.
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