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Remains of 11 Native students returned more than a century after their deaths

The Office of Army Cemeteries recently returned the remains of 11 Native American and Alaska Native students who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania more than a century ago.

WITF’s Katie Knol reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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