It’s day two of covering the Rosebud Sioux children’s return home after 140 years. Traditional prayer is expected to take place throughout the day before the children are buried in family plots this afternoon.
Duane Hollow Horn Bear’s great-grandfather’s shirt has returned home after 119 years. Today, Hollow Horn Bear is able to lay the shirt on his relative Friend Hollow Horn Bear’s memorial table.
Here’s a closer look. Hollow Horn Bear says that his great-grandfather’s hair was found on the shirt.
Multiple cakes have been donated for the ceremony today. Members of the youth council have brought them around so everyone can see.
Members of the Legion Riders shake hands with the youth council who drove the nine children back from PA. The Legion Riders met the caravan at Sioux City, IA and escorted them back to Rosebud yesterday.
I forgot to tweet but the children are now resting at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery. It’s been a long and emotional few days for everyone but there’s hope in the air that more children will return home, folks told me.
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