Massachusetts Museum Returns 150 Sacred Items to the Lakota Sioux Peoples
Nearly 110,000 of these are human remains. However, progress has been slow and privately funded museums and collections are not compelled in the same way. The Founders Museum in Barre has long held the collection acquired by the 19th-century traveling salesman Frank Root. He acquired Indigenous items to exhibit in a traveling road show. The weapons, pipes, moccasins, and clothing Root collected eventually ended up in the Massachusetts museum. These items are incredibly significant to Indigenous peoples, some of whom are descendants of survivors of Wounded Knee....