Many students at Carlisle were “loaned out” to white families to work as cheap labor in what were called ‘Outings’. Deaths occurred through illness or injury and were not always recorded. Additionally, students were not always buried in unmarked graves. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is searching for missing students. One expert estimates that the number of missing boarding school children could top 10,000.
Jeff Gammage. “A search for native children who died while on ‘Outings’ in PA.” May 2, 2018. Philly.com http://www.philly.com/philly/news/indian-school-carlisle-native-quaker-cemetery-outing-20180502.html?photo_10&mobi=true
