
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 9, 1993                   TAG: 9310090137
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AT LONG LAST, INDIANS' REMAINS GIVEN TO TRIBE

Unwilling to submit to starvation and disease in a strange land, a band of Cheyenne fled a reservation in 1878 to walk hundreds of miles north to their homeland. Many never made it; they were slaughtered by U.S. soldiers in Nebraska.

On Friday, remains of 25 of the men, women and children who set out 115 years ago for the Montana plains, resumed the homeward journey.

The remains, which had been shipped to Washington and Cambridge, Mass., as objects of scientific curiosity, were turned over to a northern Cheyenne tribal group.

The remains will be buried at Busby, Mont., on Oct. 16 with a traditional ceremony. - Associated Press

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB