Remains, artifacts from Wounded Knee to return to South Dakota
More than 131 artifacts and remains from Wounded Knee are coming back to South Dakota.
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More than 131 artifacts and remains from Wounded Knee are coming back to South Dakota.
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.
“This is not our history of Barre. This is the Lakota Sioux's history, and we should honor the Lakota Sioux and what they desire.”
Indigenous headlines for Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022
The objects include beaded moccasins, cradle boards used to carry babies and pipes. Sioux tribal leaders believe they were taken off the bodies of people who were massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.