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