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Stewart Huntington
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The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is ready to bring Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley home after more than a century.
The tribe filed a federal lawsuit last month against the U.S. Army, demanding return of the remains of the two boys more than 100 years after they died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
The suit, filed Jan. 17 in federal court in Virginia, came after the tribe received notice in December that the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries had denied the tribe’s request for the remains to be returned under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA.
For Winnebago tribal leaders, the case resonates beyond their nation.