Department of the Army April 9, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC) is honoring the requests of the family members and Tribes to disinter the human remains of eleven Native American students from the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The decedent names are: William Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield, James Cornman, and Samuel Flying Horse from the Oglala Sioux Tribe; Leonidas Chawa from the Pechanga Band of Indians; Albert Mekko from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and Alfred Charko and Kati Rosskidwits from the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. These students died between 1880 and 1910 while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for more details.