After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to ...

Every year in late December, Native people gather at the mass grave site in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, to pray for those slaughtered by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890.

Some are believed to have been taken from Wounded Knee immediately after the 1890 massacre, when U.S. troops killed as many as 300 or more Lakota men, women and children.

"Further substantiating that these objects came from Wounded Knee," Miller said of the seven objects. The museum photographed, catalogued and moved more than 100 objects to archival boxes.

Wounded Knee descendants plan ceremony to burn returned ... The group has been working with Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out on how to properly handle the objects and ceremony.

His parents were killed there at Wounded Knee," Broken Nose said. In the late 1800s, ... Michael He Crow from Pine Ridge reservation said the objects still embody the spirit of those killed by U.S ...

Tribes in South Dakota are working with the Founders Museum in Barre to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.

BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they’ve sat for more than a ...

The items are among as many as 200 artifacts that were stolen from the bodies of the 250 Lakota men, women and children slaughtered by the U.S. Army in 1890 during the Wounded Knee massacre in ...

(Tribune News Service) — Last November, more than 150 items stolen from mass graves of Wounded Knee massacre victims were returned to a group of descendants, the Si’Tanka Ta’ Oyate O ...

Tribal members plan to hold a ceremony with the objects at Wounded Knee in December, on the anniversary of the massacre. Corrected: October 12, 2022 at 10:45 AM EDT.