| Summary: | Documents the story of two Lipan Apache children captured along the Texas-Mexican border in 1877 by the 4th U.S. Cavalry under the direction of Col. McKenzie. After the massacre of their village, the children were taken from fort to fort on horseback for three years before being taken to the newly opened Carlisle Indian School (CIS) in Pennsylvania. Ties with their family were completely severed. Jack Mather died of tuberculosis a few years later and is buried in the CIS cemetery. Over the years, his sister Kesetta (the longest-enrolled student at CIS) was sent on various "outings" to work as a domestic servant. When she died at the age of 39, also of tuberculosis, the only legacy she left was her three year-old son, Richard. He became the youngest child ever to be enrolled at CIS and only one of two students to remain in Carlisle. He eventually married, managed Bellaire Park, and is buried in Carlisle's Westminster cemetery
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