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One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a century in
Recent efforts to repatriate human remains and other culturally significant items represent significant and solemn moments for tribes.
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.
A federal database shows some 870,000 items that should be returned to tribes by law still are in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country. The holdings include nearly 110,000 human remains.
It was a key step in returning scores of items displayed at the Founders Museum in Barre to tribes in South Dakota that have sought them since the 1990s