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Oneida Indian Nation reclaims cultural property in repatriation ceremony
Friday, November 11, 2022
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The Oneida Indian Nation has reclaimed more than 1,500 funerary objects and cultural artifacts, as well as a long-overdue apology, from Colgate University in the state of New York.
Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter accepted the repatriation of the tribe’s cultural property during a ceremony on campus on Wednesday. The items had been part of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate.
“For decades, too many museums and other educational and cultural institutions have followed indefensible practices regarding the ancestral remains and cultural artifacts of Native Americans,” Halbritter said in a news release. “These practices have been allowed to continue under the belief that preserving history is of the ultimate importance without questioning the means of doing so. They assume it is possible while divorcing the history from the people to whom it belongs, presuming to tell our stories with stolen artifacts and unfamiliar voices. Native people’s funerary and ceremonial objects should never be the property of museums in this way.”
Oneida Indian Nation on Social Media
A ceremony was held at @colgateuniv today to repatriate more than 1,500 funerary objects and cultural artifacts to the Oneida Indian Nation from the @lmacolgate collections. We are grateful for this repatriation and for @PresidentCasey’s apology on behalf of the university. pic.twitter.com/0QJEHX1uHM
— Oneida Indian Nation (@OneidaNatnNews) November 9, 2022
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