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. But the remembrance this year ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribe recently secured the return of cultural objects kept for over a century in a tiny Massachusetts museum. Now it is seeking consensus on their final resting place.

'More than just objects': Barre museum returns items believed to come from Wounded Knee 04:33 November 07, 2022 Nancy Eve Cohen, New England Public Media ...

"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.

Retropolis Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain ...

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 ...

"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.

Still, many in the Wounded Knee descendants group wanted to pursue getting the items returned. "We knew stuff had been stored, or sold, or traded and in some cases stolen.

Moccasins, necklaces, clothing, ceremonial pipes, tools and other objects were carefully laid out on white backgrounds as a photographer dutifully snapped pictures under bright studio lights.

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.