Melissa Riegel-Garrett, left, and Donna Kennedy embrace Tuesday during the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Learning Together Center at the Brook Street School in Barre. Riegel-Garrett was the director of
BARRE More than 100 artifacts that were pilfered from the bodies of many of the nearly 300 Lakota people slaughtered at the Wounded Knee Massacre 132 years ago are now much closer to their rightful resting places.On Saturday, in a symbolic handover.
BARRE – More than 100 artifacts pilfered from the bodies of many of the nearly 300 Lakota people slaughtered at the Wounded Knee Massacre 132 years ago are now much closer to their rightful resting places. The massacre took place on Dec. 29, 1890,.
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.