Good Bones: From the Carlisle Indian School to Montana: Bringing them home

The Kaimin Cast · Oct 8, 2026 · 20m

By

Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin

gracegolbach@umontana.edu

Vivi Ostheimer / Advanced Audio Capstone

vivianne.ostheimer@umconnect.umt.edu

During the late 1800s, four children of the Gros Ventre Tribe on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation attended Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania and died there. Their bones were not returned home until three were exhumed and identified in 2023. Members of the tribe journeyed to the east coast to bring them home. The fourth remains unknown. This episode dives into the history of Indian boarding schools and the repatriation of the children’s bones. This…