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3 Native American Boys Exhumed With Greatest Care

The headstone designated the resting place of Hayes Vanderbilt Friday—a name given to a Northern Arapaho child in what the Philadelphia Inquirer calls a "brutal, turn-of-the-century experiment in forced assimilation." The government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School was established in 1879 as a place to scrub Native American children of...


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3 Native American Boys Exhumed With Greatest Care

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