Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk to Nebraska tribe
BOSTON (AP) -- A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, has been returned to his tribe after being
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BOSTON (AP) -- A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, has been returned to his tribe after being
“Being able to hold the tomahawk, I was like, ‘Wow, my great-great-great-grandfather touched this,’ ” Stacy Laravie said. “It felt like a relative was coming home.”
The draft was put together by a committee over the past year in an attempt to parse out how the university would handle its ties to America's legacy of slavery.
Harvard University holds human remains belonging to 7,000 Native Americans though a 1990 federal law bars that very thing, according to a draft report from a school committee...
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