Samuel and Edward: Two boys, buried under misspelled headstones, at center of fight with U.S. Army - Flatwater Free Press

Samuel and Edward: Two boys, buried under misspelled headstones, at center of fight with U.S. Army - Flatwater Free Press

The boys were taken from their homes on the northeast Nebraska reservation in early September 1895, part of a small group on a three-day train bound for Pennsylvania. They were heading for a five-year term at the first government-run Native American boarding school, General Richard Henry Pratt’s experiment to “kill the Indian, save the man.”  At Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the boys would have their hair cut and traditional clothing taken.…