In sorrow and support, Dr. Kay McGowan, left, a cultural anthropologist at Eastern Michigan University, and Fay Givens, right, Executive Director of the American Indian Services, fall to their knees as they embrace an Randy LeBar in the Indian Cemetery at the Carlisle Barracks on Oct. 6, 2012. They were overcome with emotion upon entering the cemetery for the first time. Kay and Fay are twins of Choctaw and Cherokee descent. Their great grandmother attended the Carlisle Indian School. Randy LeBar is from the band of Blackoot people in northern Ohio. Oct. 6 also marked the anniversary of the first group of students arriving at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. They were in Carlisle for a symposium at Dickinson College on the Indian school, “Carlisle, PA: Site of Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations.” The Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota have begun efforts to repatriate the remains of the 10 Rosebud students buried on the Carlisle school grounds. CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer
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