Fort Peck curators plan live museum parade
“We want to inspire and show people that our culture is not a costume," said Dyan Youpee. "It’s real, living history, and we have so much pride in it.”
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“We want to inspire and show people that our culture is not a costume," said Dyan Youpee. "It’s real, living history, and we have so much pride in it.”
The National Park Service announced $2.1 million in grants to nine Native American tribes and 20 museums and institutions to support consultation and repatriation of cultural items.
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Items at the University of Montana included a beaded buckskin pouch, rawhide drum with pictographs, beaded leather bags, pipe bags, medicine bags, beaded moccasins, a Dakota girl’s dress, a Dakota cradleboard, Dakota quilt bag and Dakota star pouch
“I didn’t know how UM was going to respond, but I knew I had a whole tribe of people waiting for these things to come home,” said Dyan Youpee, director