Saginaw Chippewa Tribe seeks return of ancestors

Thursday, March 20, 2008  

The Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan is asking the University of Michigan to return about 1,200 ancestors and artifacts.

The tribe says the university's Museum of Anthropology is not complying with the Native American Graves Protections and Repatriation Act.

"There was never any consultation with any of the Tribes or Native people," Shannon Martin, the director of the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways, told The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun.

The museum has repatriated some ancestors and property to the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians and the the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, both of Michigan, and the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona.

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Tribe to ask U-M for return of remains, artifacts (The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun 3/20)