Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee
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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. Army's 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 —...