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The US Stole Generations of Native American Children to Open the West

Nick Estes High Country News
Native pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (c.1900).
Nearly 200 Native children lie buried at the entrance of the Carlisle Barracks. Although Carlisle is located in the East, it played a key role in pressuring the West’s most intransigent tribes to cede and sell land by taking their children hostage.