Northern Arapaho NAGPRA Repatriations

Story of Success! Northern Arapaho NAGPRA Repatriations

The session summarizes the repatriation of three Northern Arapaho Children buried at Carlisle Indian Industrial School for the last 134 years, and how assimilation and erasure culture at that time saw many Native American sacred objects displaced like Chief Black Coal’s Trail War bonnet.

• Crystal C’Bearing, Northern Arapaho, Tribal Historic Preservation Office Deputy Director
• Chairman Jordan Dresser, Northern Arapaho, Northern Arapaho Tribal Chairman and Northern Arapaho NAGPRA Curator
• Yufna Soldier Wolf, Northern Arapaho, Former Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and NAGPRA Coordinator

Written by 92.9 The Torch