Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum to Repatriate 10 Sacred Objects to Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes
October 31, 2026
October 31, 2026
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSFR) -- The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in Kansas intends to repatriate 10 sacred cultural items to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.
The items include child's leggings, child's vests, moccasins, pipe bags and a breastplate. According to the museum's records, seven objects were collected by Carl Eldridge Bitting during his travels across the Plains in the 1930s and 1940s and donated to . . .
The items include child's leggings, child's vests, moccasins, pipe bags and a breastplate. According to the museum's records, seven objects were collected by Carl Eldridge Bitting during his travels across the Plains in the 1930s and 1940s and donated to . . .