Native children’s remains in US to be returned to families

This building formed part of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus where children from more than 140 Native American tribes passed through the school between 1879 and 1918 - a multi-phase process to disinter the remains of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago reunite them with their families us under way [Matt Slocum/AP Photo]

The US military has begun disinterring the remains of eight Native American children in a small cemetery on the grounds of the US Army War College in Pennsylvania to return them to their families.

The disinterment process, which began during the weekend, is the fifth at Carlisle, Pennsylvania since 2017. More than 20 sets of Native remains were transferred to family members in earlier rounds.