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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