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NOVEMBER 7, 2000

"I can look back at the years when I watched Native and cultural items disappear regularly from our once-large treasure house of cultural pieces. Some items are sacred while other are valuable to our history. Very few Native people knew how to stop the thievery. All we could do is stand by and watch our cultural and spiritual items pass out of our hands, and melt into museum showcases like water into dry sand. Some of us were astonished when we found those Grandfathers or Grandmothers staring back at us from their glass cages in some museum..."

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Dorreen Yellow Bird: Native traditions, handle eagle feathers, cultural items with care (The Grand Forks Herald 11/7)

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