Tribal elder Duane Hollow Horn Bear listens to a speech at an event for the nine Rosebud children whose remains are being transported home on Friday, July 16, 2021 at the Fort Randall Casino on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.
Kailey Houseman, 3, collects orange balloons, the color chosen to honor lost Indigenous people, after they were released into the air at an event for the nine Rosebud children whose remains are being transported home on Friday, July 16, 2021 at the Fort Randall Casino on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.
Women stand outside as a private prayer takes place with family members of the nine children on Friday, July 16, 2021 at Whetstone Landing.
The water is quiet at Whetstone Landing, at the exact shore where Rosebud children were sent to Carlisle boarding school by steamboat over 100 years ago, on Friday, July 16, 2021 in Whetstone Bay.
A caravan accompanying the remains of nine Rosebud children arrives on Friday, July 16, 2021 at the Fort Randall Casino on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.
Women cry with each other as the remains of nine Rosebud children are returned home on Friday, July 16, 2021 at Whetstone Landing.
Duane Hollow Horn Bear and Sam High Crane carefully remove Hollow Horn Bear's great-grandfather's shirt from a box on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Sinte Gleska University Student Multicultural Center. The shirt had been in a German museum for 119 years before being returned to the tribe.
Relatives of the nine children returned home for burial process out to their vehicles to journey to the cemeteries on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Sinte Gleska University Student Multicultural Center.
Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux children returned home 142 years after their deaths receive an American flag, a prayer flag and the Rosebud Sioux tribal flag during funeral ceremony on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Tania Bartlett reaches down to place something in the grave of her relative, Maud Little Girl Swift Bear, at a funeral 142 years after her death on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Members of the tribal color guard hold an American flag, a prayer flag and the Rosebud Sioux tribal flag for relatives of the Rosebud Sioux children returned home 142 years after their deaths on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Relatives and tribal members lower the remains of Rosebud Sioux children into their final grave site 142 years after their deaths on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Relatives embrace each other as the remains of nine Rosebud children are returned home on Friday, July 16, 2021 at Whetstone Landing.
Mary Randall, a 101 year old Rosebud Sioux elder, speaks passionately in Lakota before tossing dirt in each grave of the six children whose remains were returned home after 142 years on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Relatives and tribal members throw dirt into the graves of six Rosebud Sioux children at a funeral 142 years after their deaths on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.
Each grave of the Rosebud Sioux children has a temporary marker until a headstone can be put in, as well as flowers and a bag of food for their journey home on Friday, July 17, 2021 at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veterans Cemetery.