St. Paul businessmen help return century-old birchbark scroll to Minnesota’s Ojibwe tribe
The four-by-four-inch scroll is composed of four sections of birchbark lashed together with hide ties. The “pages” are coiled and carved with images and landscapes relevant to specific and private ceremonies.
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Sean Blanchet, left, and Robert Snell, owners of Revere Auctions in St. Paul talk in their gallery Monday, May 17, 2021 about their efforts to return culturally sensitive items to the countries or people groups from which the items originated. The two recently worked with a Boston auction house to retrieve a century-old birchbark scroll and return it to the White Earth Indian Reservation, home to the Ojibwe people, in northwest Minnesota. Deanna Weniger / St. Paul Pioneer Press
St Paul businessmen help return century-old birchbark scroll to Minnesota s Ojibwe tribe
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An attorney who is a descendant of a Native American tribal chief and civil rights leader is calling on Harvard University to return an ancient relic currently on display at one of its museums.
Brett Chapman of Oklahoma, who is related to Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe, detailed in a recent Twitter thread that he sent an email late last month to Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology challenging the “moral right” to hold and display a tomahawk that once belonged to Standing Bear.
Chapman in his letter to the museum’s director, Jane Pickering, explained that the single-handed axe wrongfully ended up in Harvard’s possession after Standing Bear, one of the first Native Americans to sue and be granted civil rights under U.S. law, in 1879 gave the tomahawk as a gift of thanks to one of his lawyers, John Lee Webster.