The remains and the names of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a century, the Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC) has announced. The children died between 1880 and 1910 while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school for Native American children known for physical and sexual abuse, the US Department of Interior detailed in a 2022 report. The names of the children who are being repatriated to their tribes, are Edward Upright from the Spirit Lake Tribe in North Dakota; Amos LaFramboise from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota; Beau Neal from the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming; Edward Spott from the Puyallup Tribe in Washington; and Launy Shorty from the Blackfeet Nation in Montana.
Though the homicide rate for Indigenous people in Wyoming has decreased over the past five years, Native Americans in the state are still more likely to go missing or be murdered than people of any other race or ethnicity, a new report shows. The Indigenous homicide rate in 2022 was nearly six times higher than it was for white people in Wyoming, according to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force’s 2023 report, which was released in May. Indigenous people make up less than 3% of Wyoming’s population, they accounted for 12% of all homicides in the state last year.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News Center.
