EventThree Alaska Native students who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School were reburied in their home villages during October 2026. Tummassak rested in Shishmaref on Oct. 4, Edward Angalook in Unalakleet on Oct. 2, and Lucy Spaulding is scheduled for burial on Oct. 12 in Bayview Cemetery. A fourth student, Mabel Booth, remains unidentified at Carlisle.
Tummassak, an Alaska Native student from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School who died in 1900, was reburied in Shishmaref, Alaska, on Oct. 4, 2026, following her remains’ disinterment from the Carlisle cemetery; other Alaska Native student remains were also repatriated this year.
Three Alaska Native student remains, including Tummassak, were returned to Alaska and reburied—Tummassak in Shishmaref on Oct. 4, 2026—marking a historic repatriation from Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Around 30 Alaska Native youths who died over a century ago in federal boarding schools are returning to their homelands, with three already reburied in Alaska and about 25 more scheduled for return this month after research by the Alaska Native Heritage Center identified their descendants.
