TITLE

MAKING HISTORY

AUTHOR(S)

Blumberg, Jess

PUB. DATE

January 2008

SOURCE

Smithsonian;Jan2008, Vol. 38 Issue 10, p34

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the plans of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History to send the possessions of Indian Chief Sitting Bull to his closest living relatives. The National Museum of the American Indian Act required that the possessions be returned. The director of the museum's Repatriation Office, Bill Billeck discovered that Sitting Bull's closest living relatives were Ernie LaPointe of Lead, South Dakota and his three sisters, and plans to ship the possessions, which consist of Sitting Bull's hair and leggings, to them. The shooting of Sitting Bull is discussed.

ACCESSION #

28023367

Tags: LAPOINTE, Ernie;  INDIANS of North America;  SITTING Bull, 1831-1890;  SMITHSONIAN Institution (Washington, D.C.);  NATIONAL Museum of Natural History (U.S.);  BILLECK, Bill

 

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