After decades of requests from the Oglala Lakota, the Barre Museum Association returned more than 100 items to tribal leaders. Some of the objects are believed to come from the bodies of those massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
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BARRE Just over 130 years ago, on Dec. 29, 1890, troopers belonging to the U.S. 7th Cavalry surrounded several hundred Indigenous people members of the Lakota Tribe and opened fire. No one is certain what sparked the fusillade, but when it was.