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Dodson School welcomed home their Aaniiih relatives: Almeda Heavy Hair (16), John Bull (16), and Bishop L. Shield (17) last Thursday. The three children's bodies were repatriated to the Fort Belknap community, 134 years after they were wrongfully neglected and died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an assimilation school, in Carlisle, PA. The school was open from 1879 to 1918. Shield died on July 30, 1890, after entering the school on April 13, 1890. Bull died on May 7, 1891, after entering the school on April 13, 1890. Heavy Hair died on August 28, 1894, after entering the school on April 13, 1890 (dates provided by https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/). A convoy of vehicles escorted the fallen children from Carlisle to Fort Belknap last Thursday, September 19. The group was assisted by Wilderness Funeral Home in Malta, after the original transport vehicle broke down in Malta on Thursday night. Heavy Hair, Bull, and Shield were properly buried in Hays last Friday.