After a memorial service on June 27 2022, the remains of two Oneida children were laid to rest in the Church of the Holy Apostles cemetery. Paul Wheelock- who passed on at 10 months of age, and Frank Green- who passed on as a teenager had been interred at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania since the late 1800’s.
Pallbearers carry the casket of one of the children returned from the cemetery at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania up the stairs to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Hobart, Wisconsin. Photo (and story) by Andrew Kennard.
“The letters back from the hired hands at Carlisle only describe him [Frank Green] as a juvenile delinquent. They don’t describe him as a child who was traumatized. They don’t describe him as a child who was taken from his home by force and made to submit to an institution that he didn’t want to be part of.”
Rev. Rodger Patience, Church of the Holy Apostles
Hobart, Wisconsin
Read the full story by Andrew Kennard on the Wisconsin Examiner here.