Moccasins, necklaces and ceremonial pipes are carefully laid out as a photographer dutifully snaps pictures under bright studio lights, but it's a key step in a long and painful process for Native Americans.
One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans who were massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerge from the dark, cluttered display cases where they have lain for more than a century.There are 870,000 Native American artefacts, including nearly 110,000 human remains, in collections at universities and museums across America
It's a key step in returning scores of items displayed at the Founders Museum in Barre, rural Massachusetts, to the South Dakota tribes that have sought them since the 1990s. Some 870,000 Native American artefacts — including nearly 110,000 human remains — that should be returned to tribes under federal law are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country
The institution took similar steps in 2016 when it established a cemetery in north-east Ohio for the Delaware tribes of Oklahoma to re-bury nearly 90 ancestors who had been stored for centuries in Pennsylvania museums. Its collection was donated by Barre native Frank Root, a 19th century travelling showman who claimed he'd acquired the objects from a man tasked with digging mass graves following the massacre.
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