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More than 150 artifacts taken from Native Americans that have been deemed "sacred" will be returned to two Sioux tribes in South Dakota after they were stored at a museum in Massachusetts for over a century.

After decades of requests from the Oglala Lakota, the Barre Museum Association returned more than 100 items to tribal leaders. Some of the objects are believed to come from the bodies of those massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.

BARRE, Mass. (AP) -- About 150 artifacts considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux peoples are being returned to them after being stored at a small

After over 30 years, the Barre Founders Museum is returning tribal artifacts from the Wounded Knee massacre to the Lakota people

A two hour ceremony was held in Massachusetts on Saturday to mark the symbolic return of about 150 items considered sacred by the Sioux peoples that had been stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century

BARRE, Mass. (AP) -- About 150 artifacts considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux peoples are being returned to them after being stored at a small

BARRE — Just over 130 years ago, on Dec. 29, 1890, troopers belonging to the U.S. 7th Cavalry surrounded several hundred Indigenous people — members of the Lakota Tribe — and opened fire. No one is certain what sparked the fusillade, but when it was...

About 150 items considered sacred by the Sioux peoples that have been stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century are being returned, museum and tribal officials announced Monday.The items including weapons, pipes, moccasins and...

A ceremony is scheduled for early November

A museum in Barre, Massachusetts, is returning items — include pipes, weapons and children's moccasins — to the Oglala Sioux tribe from South Dakota.