The Walns asked the court to declare it illegal to ban Native American graduating students from expressing their academic achievement and religious beliefs through beaded caps and eagle feathers or plumes.
The history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School represents the haunting legacy of Indian boarding schools, institutions which were weaponized against Native American children and Tribal Nations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carlisle’s founder, General Richard Henry Pratt, characterized the mission of Indian boarding schools as being to "kill the Indian, save the man."
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) worked to bring Amos LaFromboise home so he could be laid to rest on their reservation next to his father, and so SWO can continue to heal from the harm the federal Indian boarding school era caused.
