SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — About 150 spiritual artifacts were returned to agents of the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes on Saturday after being saved at a little Massachusetts museum for more than a century.
The stays and artifacts were taken in the early 19th century by a takingatrip shoe salesperson from a gravesite at Wounded Knee, a website where an approximated 300 Native Americans were eliminated in1890 The artifacts consistedof moccasins, weapons, arrows and clothes, amongst other products.
Those taken artifacts ended up at the Founders Museum in Barre, Massachusetts, about 74 miles west of Boston.
More than 100 individuals from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and more were in presence at the event on Saturday to celebrate the return of stays and artifacts.
The event significant the conclusion of repatriation efforts that hadactually been years in the making. The artifacts will be formally handed over throughout a personal event.
“Ever consideringthat that Wounded Knee massacre tookplace, genocides haveactually been instilled in our blood,” stated Surrounded Bear, 20, who tookatrip to Barre from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, according to The Boston Globe. “And for us to bring back these artifacts, that’s a action towards recovery. That’s a action in the right instructions.”
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The return of these artifacts are just a little portion of an approximated 870,000 Native American artifacts — consistingof almost 110,000 human stays — in the ownership of college