Our View: Civil War headstones preserved with dignity
Thumbs up to the continuing effort to find, document and preserve cemetery headstones of those who fought in the Civil War.
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Thumbs up to the continuing effort to find, document and preserve cemetery headstones of those who fought in the Civil War.
Against the orange glare of high-pressure sodium lights, a small projector cast an image of a northern jaguar against the steel wall strung with razor wire that runs along West International Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz.
Tribal leaders filed a federal repatriation claim earlier this year to recover the noose used in the hanging of 38 Dakota men, which remains the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
The community filed a claim under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and has won its case.
The item was used in the hanging of Wicanhpi Wastedanpi (also known as Chaske), one of the 38 Dakota men hanged on Dec. 26, 1862