Carlisle Barracks was more than one hundred years old by the time the U.S. Army relinquished the central Pennsylvania Army post to the Department of the Interior in 1879. What followed there became known as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School; an experiment to assimilate American Indian children into white, American culture. It was the first … Continue reading "The U.S. Army preparing to exhume the remains of 10 Indian School students from Carlisle Barracks Cemetery"