Sydney Horse Looking should’ve known exactly who she was praying for. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Horse Looking was visiting the cemetery with other teenagers as an educational trip. Why can’t we bring them home?’” she recalled. The question launched what would become a six-year effort to bring back the disinterred remains of nine Rosebud Sioux children for a proper reburial in their homelands in South Dakota. The repatriation makes the Rosebud Sioux some of the only people in North America who know, first-hand, the process and pain Indigenous people in Canada will experience in the years to come as they begin work to bring home the remains of children lost at residential schools.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2022 11:29 UTC