{"id":133398,"date":"2023-01-26T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//?p=133398"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:25:33","slug":"ucf-researchers-help-restore-the-lost-history-of-indigenous-prisoners-in-st-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//ucf-researchers-help-restore-the-lost-history-of-indigenous-prisoners-in-st-augustine/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398//","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ Researchers Help Restore the Lost History of Indigenous Prisoners in St. Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Plains Wars of the mid-1800s, thousands of indigenous peoples were forced from their homelands. Dozens of their leaders and warriors were imprisoned over a thousand miles away from home in Fort Marion (now known as the Castillo de San Marcos) in St. Augustine, Florida. Today, Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ researchers are collaborating with the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, the National Park Service, the Florida National Guard and Flagler College to help restore the lost prisoners/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u2019 experiences for their descendants and the public./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/n

Amy Larner Giroux, associate director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) in the College of Arts and Humanities, has been researching burial sites in St. Augustine National Cemetery through her work with the National Cemetery Administration. She came across two separate graves, each containing a group burial of six warriors marked with a headstone inscribed /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201cSix Unknown Indians./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201cAs a historian who works in cemeteries, it bothers me when a headstone has incomplete or unknown information about the person buried there. They deserve to have their names restored,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201d Giroux says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201cThey deserve to be recognized for who they were. And you can/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u2019t get that from a headstone that says /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u2018Six Unknown Indians/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u2019./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/n

After five years of digging through U.S. Army records and correspondence dating back more than a century, Giroux discovered the names of 10 chiefs and warriors from the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche tribes who were imprisoned and died in Fort Marion between 1875 and 1878./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/n

The names of the recovered individuals are:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/133398/n