A search for artifacts displayed at the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota in the 1980s turned up more than 100 Native American objects with religious significance and dozens of human remains.Last winter, University of North Dakota English professor Crystal Alberts started searching for a missing pipe, a headdress and moccasins once on display at the school’s library, heading deep into the recesses of the nearly 140-year-old campus.
Lyons met with Alberts to offer advice on how to respectfully handle the items, watching as Alberts and her colleagues opened box after box. Lyons said she now feels naive thinking back on it, but she never expected what they found: more than 70 samples of human remains, many of them in boxes with no identifying information.
“What we’ve done as a university is terrible, and I will continue to apologize for it,” Armacost said in a Wednesday news conference, where he vowed to see every item and ancestor found to be returned to the proper tribal nation. Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990, federal law has required institutions that receive federal funding to catalog their collections with the National Parks Service and work toward returning them to the tribal nations they were taken from. But the University of North Dakota has no entries in the federal inventory, even though its administrators acknowledge it has possessed Indigenous artifacts since its inception in 1883.
Tribal officials and Indigenous archivists said that UND leaders should be commended for how they’ve responded, praising Armacost’s willingness to consult tribes immediately after the discovery and publicly apologize for the university’s failings. But they also called for accountability.
Universities have been built on homelands and villages of Indigenous peoples. Nearly all burial sites have been covered over with farms roads and houses not just universities.
Land Back🤎💙🌎🕊🙏🏾Amen. We Must Hold All racist white supremacists Christian Churches/Nations Ever, Around The World Accountable, For War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity, Amen. Reparations Upon Reparations, Upon Reparations, Upon Reparations Abounds, Amen. Not Wars, Amen.
😞 I CAN AGREE SOUTHERN STATES COMPELLED TO MAKE REPARATIONS TO BLACK CITIZENS FOR THE INHUMANE SLAVERY OF THEIR PREDESSORS, WHAT ABOUT THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS, SLAUGHTERED TO STEAL THEIR LAND, WHERE DOSE THE COUNTRY OWN UP TO AND MAKE REPARATIONS 😞
Here we go again. How many other places are there.? A lot. More American evilness.
AndrewPeters01 Great read… sad that these people have been treated this way.
Americans are proving over and over again to be EVIL
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What a silly wasting time mission . Please remain this planets clean.
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Some people don't have clean drinking water but let's be completely outraged at some bones in a Box. Things were different back then just take them and bury them and stop trying to use the issue for political means.