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Wounded Knee Repatriation Ceremony

November 5th in Barre, MA

11:00am - 5:00pm

When: Saturday, November 5, 2022; 1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern

Where: Ruggles Lane Elementary 105 Ruggles Ln

Barre, MA

 

What: Native Organizers Alliance is organizing Harvard
students and faculty to participate in a ceremony to commemorate the
return of remains and artifacts stolen from the Wounded Knee massacre
site. In the early 19th century, a traveling shoe salesman stole items
from a gravesite at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. At the event, more
than 131 items including moccasins, weapons, arrows, and clothing, will
be returned to representatives of the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribes.

 

Speakers will include

Kevin Killer, Oglala Lakota Tribe President

Nipmuc Chief Cheryll Toney Holley;

Chair of the Massachusetts Commission On Indian Affairs

Ann Meilus, Barre Museum Association Board President

 

Please sign up for transportation provided by the HKS Institute of Politics from Harvard to Barre, MA. On Saturday, November 5, we will leave at 11 am and return by 5 pm to Cambridge. The event is from 1 pm - 3 pm in Barre, MA.

 

 Mass Grave

Burial after the massacre of Wounded Knee. U.S. Soldiers putting Native
Americans in mass grave. Photograph from wikipedia.org creative commons