Meeting Wed: reburial of bones unearthed by spillway in 1985 from 1800s slave ... - The Republic


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Meeting Wed: reburial of bones unearthed by spillway in 1985 from 1800s slave ...
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... plans to re-bury bones unearthed 26 years ago from cemeteries created for slaves before the Civil War and used for black Union soldiers during the war. The Kenner and Kugler cemeteries in St. Charles Parish are now within the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
Fate of cemeteries in Bonnet Carre Spillway will be discussed at meeting Wednesday NOLA.com

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Custer dealer seeks return of seized artifacts - Fox News

Custer dealer seeks return of seized artifacts
Fox News
A few miles from where George Custer made his infamous Last Stand against thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, artifacts dealer Christopher Kortlander is waging his own battle with authorities to reclaim a trove of war bonnets, medicine bags and ...

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Drew Barrymore Flashes Peace Sign While Wearing 'War Bonnet' - Indian Country Today Media Network.com


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Drew Barrymore Flashes Peace Sign While Wearing 'War Bonnet'
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“Not only do you give us the stereotypical war bonnet,” she writes, “you give us an association of Indians with alcohol, which is probably right up there with the worst possible stereotypes of Native people in the world ever. Nice work.

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Custer dealer in Montana seeks return of artifacts - San Francisco Chronicle

Custer dealer in Montana seeks return of artifacts
San Francisco Chronicle
A few miles from where George Custer made his infamous Last Stand against thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, artifacts dealer Christopher Kortlander is waging his own battle with authorities to reclaim a trove of war bonnets, medicine bags and ...

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Famous art detective Robert Wittman speaks at Center for the Arts fundraiser - The News-Press

Famous art detective Robert Wittman speaks at Center for the Arts fundraiser
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His recoveries included an original copy of The Bill of Rights, Geronimo's eagle-feather war-bonnet and a $36 million Rembrandt self-portrait stolen from The Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. Wittman, now retired, wrote about those cases and more ...

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Bear River Massacre Commemoration and Healing - Indian Country Today Media Network.com


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Bear River Massacre Commemoration and Healing
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By Theda New Breast January 26, 2012 Carol Murray in a stand up warbonnet receives the offering (likits'staksin) to honor those killed from her brother on horseback. “We need to remember an unjustified slaughter of mostly women, children and elderly ...

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Judge delays hearing over artifacts taken in Custer Battlefield Museum raids - Billings Gazette

Judge delays hearing over artifacts taken in Custer Battlefield Museum raids
Billings Gazette
The government seized the war bonnets, medicine bundles and other artifacts from the Custer Battlefield Museum in 2005 and 2008 during an investigation into artifact fraud. The items are being held as contraband, based on allegations they were obtained ...

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