Tamara St. John and Dianne Desrosiers worked tirelessly to bring the remains of two boys to these graves in South Dakota, more than 140 years after they died at a residential school in Pennsylvania.
Tamara St. John and Dianne Desrosiers worked tirelessly to bring the remains of two boys to these graves in South Dakota , more than 140 years after they died at a residential school in Pennsylvania . When Tamara St. John saw a boy’s teeth and skull being exhumed from his 142-year-old grave at a cemetery in Carlisle, Penn., she cried.
The South Dakota state legislator from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe had stood in the pouring rain for almost 12 hours, watching over the painstaking process that would bring home her “boys” – Amos LaFromboise and Edward Upright. On Nov. 6, 1879, Amos and Edward were among the first students to arrive at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first government-run boarding school for Indigenous children in North America. Just 20 days later, Amos, 13, was dead from unknown causes. Edward, 12, died a year and a half later in May, 1881, from measles-related pneumonia. According to school records, the boys were to be enrolled for three years. The reason for their discharge is listed as “die
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