Repatriation

1. Notice on Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Denver Musesum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO (August 29, 2008). In 1965 a pair of collectors obtained "18 silver Seminole pendants: from an American Indian art dealer, and three years later donated them to the museum. According to transaction records, four of the pendants "are from a burial over 100 years old." The museum agreed to return the pendants to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood and Tampa Reservations. (American Indian Art, Vol. 35(2):78, Spring 2010).

6. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo Field Office, Buffalo, NY (August 20, 2008). On November 25, 1876 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's Fourth Cavalry attacked a village of Cheyennes camped along the Red Fork of Powder River on the eastern slopes of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. The site of this fight is known as the Dull Knife Battlefield, in recognition of the senior Cheyenne chief present. One hundred ten years later the Bureau of Land Management analyzed material excavated from the grave of a Native American woman located on federal land adjacent to the battlefield and removed fifteen unassociated funerary objects. including pieces of brown and blue wood, tanned leather and one fragment each of rawhide and wood. it was determined that these items should be turned over the the Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. (American Indian Art, Vol. 35(2):78, Spring 2010).

8. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Field Museum, Chicago, IL (September 10, 2008). In 1902 the museum purchased a wooden rattle and worked walrus tusk from navy lieutenant George T. Emmons, who served in Alaska and from whom the institution acquired a considerable amount of Naive American material starting in the 1890's. The thirteen-inch-long, red-and-blue rattle represents an oyster catcher; the walrus tusk is composed of four sections, each about eleven inches in lenght. Collection informationstates that the tusk sections wee :found in an old cave on a small island in Icy Straits [southeastern Alaska] where a Shaman of the 'Hoonah' tribe ws laid away," while the oyster catcher came from a grave house on Frederick Bay, "near the village of 'Gan-der-kan,' of the 'Hoonah trivew.'" The museum agreed to give bot unassociated funerary objects to the Hoonah Indian Association of Alaska. (American Indian Art, Vol 35(2):79, Spring 2010).