CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pa. — Nineteen Native American children who died in the custody and control of the U.S. government while attending the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School here will finally be going home this summer.

It is the largest group to be moved to date in the U.S. Army’s ongoing effort to offer repatriation of all the former Carlisle students whose descendants desire it.

Carlisle was one in a chain of American Indian boarding schools opened and operated in the late 19th century as part of a government-led program aimed at assimilating Native Americans into the majority society.

The disinters are part of what some Native Americans describe as a larger effort to heal from the dislocation, trauma and cultural cleansing the boarding schools have come to represent.

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