Matthew Holding Eagle III

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• Beltrami County Historical Society pushes to return sacred Indigenous artifacts to communities

  MPR’s Mathew Holding Eagle III reports on Beltrami County Historical Society push to return sacred Indigenous artifacts to communities. A court granted the Beltrami Historical Society’s museum permission to break up arguably its most important collection, The John Morrison collection. The court action will allow culturally sensitive artifacts to be repatriated to the Indigenous communities where they originated.

  Jul. 27, 20234 minSave
• Repatriation goes digital: Tribes receive archival copies of cultural materials

  MPR’s Matthew Holding Eagle III reports on items related to tribal life in North Dakota being returned digitally. Thousands of culturally significant photographs, wax cylinder recordings and journals recently returned to the place where they were created over a century ago among the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes in North Dakota.

  Oct. 5, 20224 minSave