Mat Hames
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The Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho Tribe, which share the wind river Reservation, learn that their ancestral objects-beautiful drums, sacred pipes, weapons, and ceremonial attire- are now owned by a nearby Episcopalian diocese and a museum in Chicago....A poetic, haunting and impressionic portrait of a place often portrayed negatively in the media.
Description
Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled...
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