Rosebud Children Homecoming

On Saturday, July 17, 2021 on the quiet plains of western South Dakota, the Rosebud Sioux tribe properly buried their children who had been taken from them. Rosebud Sioux children were taken from their homes in 1880 to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania with the goal of assimilating them to white culture. The remains of nine of those children were finally returned more than 140 years later. Some had died from illness within months of arriving while others died years later after failed attempts of escaping the horrors of the school meant to “kill the Indian, save the man.” “The children will rest in the quiet and find comfort in being on the plains,” Russell Eagle Bear said. “Today, they made a journey to be here – to go into the comfort of Mother Earth.” The children's names are Ernest Knocks Off White Thunder, Warren Painter Bear Paints Dirt, Maud Little Girl Swift Bear, Dora Her Pipe Brave Bull, Friend Hollow Horn Bear, Rose Long Face Little Hawk, Lucy Take The Tail Pretty Hawk, Alvan One That Kills Seven Horses and Dennis Strikes First Blue Tomahawk.