Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
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Northern Arapaho tribal members travel to Pennsylvania to retrieve the stories and the remains of children who died at Carlisle Indian boarding school in the 1880s. More than a century later, will these Native American boys finally come home?

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 2305

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