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Updated July 6 Harvard returning tomahawk to Nebraska tribe A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, is being returned to the Ponca Tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. By PHILIP MARCELOAssociated Press Share BOSTON — A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, is returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. The university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it’s been working with members of the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska and Oklahoma to ...

Harvard In Talks To Return Tomahawk Of Native American Civil Rights Icon The gates leading to Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. Charles Krupa / AP Share Standing Bear Tomahawk Update A descendant of Native American civil rights pioneer Standing Bear is now in talks with Harvard University to have a tomahawk once belonging to the Ponca chief repatriated. Earlier this month, GBH News first reported on Brett Chapman’s effort to get Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to turn over the relic. In a follow-up interview with GBH A...

Shannon O’Loughlin is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the chief executive and attorney for the association, which formed in 1922 to serve Indian Country by protecting sovereignty and preserving culture. “Harvard tends to cause delay, refuses to make decisions. And often causes extensive burden on Tribes by forcing them to produce evidence of cultural affiliation so they have a long history.  O’Loughlin says she’s concerned Harvard-educated students would go on to other institutions and perpetuate the same harmful repatriation practices and procedures. “They have de...

29:04 In early 2021, the Harvard Peabody Museum issued a statement apologizing for its reluctance working with Tribes to return some remains and funerary objects. The social unrest of 2020 reignited the conversation of returning ancestral remains and sacred objects to their people.  Since contact, Indigenous people and settlers have had a contentious relationship, particularly as settlers appropriated items from traditional Native homelands. These items include totem poles, funerary and cultural objects – even remains of Indigenous ancestors. Examples include in the late 1800s when the Edw...

Peabody Museum in Talks To Repatriate Ponca Tomahawk Following Descendant’s Request, Nebraska Legislature Resolution | News | The Harvard Crimson