Back to the Real Salt Lake Newsfeed

Army to return remains of American Indian boy who died at government-run boarding school

Casper, Wyo. • The remains of a Northern Arapaho boy who died attending a government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania about 135 years ago will be returned to a Wyoming reservation.

The body of 10-year-old Little Plume, also called Hayes Vanderbilt, will be exhumed Thursday and returned to the Wind River Reservation, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.

Little Plume was to be reburied last year when the remains of 15-year-old Little Chief, also known as Dickens Nor, and 14-year-old Horse, also called Horace Washington, were returned. All three died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.