Native America Calling: Alutiiq Museum tells the story of Alaska Native children sent to Carlisle Indian Boarding School

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Native America Calling: Alutiiq Museum tells the story of Alaska Native children sent to Carlisle Indian Boarding School

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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Alutiiq Museum tells the story of Alaska Native children sent to Carlisle Indian Boarding School

The Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, is telling the story of 11 children taken from the area and shipped off to the Carlisle Indian Boarding School more than a century ago.

The museum was instrumental in securing the return of one of those children who was buried on school grounds. It is part of an ongoing effort by the museum to document and repatriate Alaska Native ancestors under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Tune into Native America Calling to hear about their work.

Eleven Alaska Native students with an Indian agent named Mr. C. E. Bunnell are seen at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania in 1901. Photo: Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

Guests on Native America Calling

Dehrich Chya (Alutiiq, Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak), director of language and living culture at the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository

Benjamin Jacuk (Dena’ina Athabascan and Sugpiaq), director of Indigenous research at the Alaska Native Heritage Center

Nyché Andrew (Yup’ik/Iñupiaq)