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St Paul businessmen help return century-old birchbark scroll to Minnesota s Ojibwe tribe

St Paul businessmen help return century-old birchbark scroll to Minnesota s Ojibwe tribe
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Alaska Native cultural experts say more work on repatriation needs done

29:04 In early 2021, the Harvard Peabody Museum issued a statement apologizing for its reluctance working with Tribes to return some remains and funerary objects. The social unrest of 2020 reignited the conversation of returning ancestral remains and sacred objects to their people.  Since contact, Indigenous people and settlers have had a contentious relationship, particularly as settlers appropriated items from traditional Native homelands. These items include totem poles, funerary and cultural objects – even remains of Indigenous ancestors. Examples include in the late 1800s when the Edward Harriman Expedition removed a Teikweidi memorial pole from Southeast Alaska (1899). Or when anthropologist  Aleš Hrdlička, a Czech-born anthropologist in the early 1900s known for unorthodox collection methods , such as stripping decomposing flesh from bones, or discarded the remains of an infant found in a cradleboard and sent it  to the American Museum of Natural History.

Curyung Tribe finalizing action plan to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons epidemic

Curyung Tribe and SAFE Domestic Violence Shelter called out 35 names of those Missing or Murdered on MMIP Day, May 5, 2021. From left, Marilyn Casteel, Desi Bond, J.J Larson and Courtenay Carty. (Photo by Tyler Thompson/KDLG) “That was really amazing to get through that and get introduced to law enforcement and other entities across the state, Larson said. Once we adopt the plan, there’s still going to be lots of work to do.” Ingrid Cumberlidge is the MMIP Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska. She said the plan focuses on the role of law enforcement and the media, and holds those entities accountable.

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