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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.

On the 50th anniversary year of the Buffalo National River, Dennis "Hete" Heter set off on the longest canoe trip of his life -- floating the whole river, Ponca to White River, in one trip.

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe one of his "personal heroes"

Gov. Ricketts renames the Nebraska Justice Administration Building in dedication to Chief Standing Bear.

San Diego Fire-Rescue said the brush fire is under control at 2 acres; no evacuations ordered

"It's incumbent upon us as Nebraskans to tell that story of the heroism of Chief Standing Bear and how he fought for his family and for his tribe, and ultimately, for everybody in the United States," Gov. Pete Ricketts said.