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For the first time, tribal nations forcibly removed from Illinois will have final say in how and when the remains of their ancestors will be returned to them.
Johnathan Buffalo is tribal historian of the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama. Suzanne Wanatee is preparing Johnathan’s hair for the 1999 annual summer powwow. Johnathan is a spiritual man of quiet
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For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 Indigenous people. Thirty years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide museum system still holds thousands.