Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Repatriate Over 4,500 Cultural Items to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
May 08, 2025
May 08, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, has announced its intention to repatriate 4,506 unassociated funerary objects.
The items, which span a wide array of artifacts including faunal remains, ceramics, beads, lithic fragments, and stone tools, were collected from various burial sites across North Carolina and Tennessee. The announcement was published in the Federal Register . . .
The items, which span a wide array of artifacts including faunal remains, ceramics, beads, lithic fragments, and stone tools, were collected from various burial sites across North Carolina and Tennessee. The announcement was published in the Federal Register . . .