From 1879 to 1918, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School educated — and by many accounts traumatised — thousands of Native American children from across the country. It was the first and largest of the government-run Indian boarding schools, and its influence spread to dozens of similar institutions. The school operated on the Carlisle Barracks grounds, and several original buildings survive.
The site is now part of the Army War College campus, with interpretive markers explaining the school's history. The cemetery, where students who died far from their homes are buried, is the most sobering spot on the campus. In 2017, the Army began exhuming and repatriating remains to families and nations who requested them. This history is complicated and important, and the site handles it with more directness than you might expect on a military installation.