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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🧵 This weekend, I covered the return of nine children to the Rosebud Sioux tribe after 142 years. The return is part of a deeply tragic history where the US government would rip indigenous children away from their families, tribes, traditions to give them a white man's education
The nine children, along with so many others, died at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School. It took 142 years for them to come back home and was part of a six-year process kicked off by the Sicangu Youth Council to return the remains.
On Friday, the caravan carrying the children stopped in Whetstone Landing, which is the last place the kids saw their families before getting on a steamboat. An emotional ceremony was held where relatives were able to have the first meal with the children. argusleader.com/story/news/loc…