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Moccasins, necklaces and ceremonial pipes are carefully laid out as a photographer dutifully snaps pictures under bright studio lights, but it's a key step in a long and painful process for Native Americans.

Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890

BARRE, Mass. -- One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where theyve sat for more than

This undated photo shows a tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, which will be returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in

Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.

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American Indians whose relatives suffered the Wounded Knee massacre have launched an effort to have items returned to their tribes. Read more on Boston.com.

Native American tribe members working to retrieve historical items stolen from the bodies of the dead at the U.S. Armys massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota claim bureaucracy has stalled the return of the artifacts.

Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain during the 1890 massacre in South Dakota.

BARRE — Shortly after noon Wednesday, Chief Henry Red Cloud of the Lakota indigenous tribe in South Dakota viewed the collection of artifacts taken from the site of the Wounded Knee massacre and now in the possession of the Barre Museum Association —...