On Sept. 7, 1895, two teenage boys from the Winnebago tribe entered Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The Indian agent designated by the federal government to oversee the tribe, Capt. W.H. Beck, had forced the boys, Edward Hensley and Samuel Gilbert, into five-year terms at a boarding school that the Bureau of Indian Affairs ran on Army property.

Forty-seven days later, Samuel was dead. Edward died in 1899, a year before his term would have ended. Its not clear how either of them died, but administrators buried both boys on school grounds. No records exist to confirm whether the school sought permission from the childrens families to bury them there. Its not clear when, or even if, school officials notified the families of Samuels and Edwards deaths.