American Indians whose relatives suffered the Wounded Knee massacre have launched an effort to have items returned to their tribes. Read more on Boston.com.
Native American tribe members working to retrieve historical items stolen from the bodies of the dead at the U.S. Army s massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota claim bureaucracy has stalled the return of the artifacts.
Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain during the 1890 massacre in South Dakota.
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A group of tribal leaders from South Dakota visited a small museum in Barre, Massachusetts, to ask it to return the belongings of their ancestors. They believe the museum's collection includes items taken off the bodies of people massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.