Mending The Circle

George G. Heye (left) holding a dish, Mrs. R. C. Darney (center) holding a canoe prow, and E.S. Robinson (right).
Photo: T.P.O. Menzies, courtesy of the National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Repatriation: Northern Cheyenne remains being escorted to burial site by Northern Cheyenne community. Photo by John Warner, St. Labre Indian School, courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

James G. Swan, 1891.
From the Photo Collection of the Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma.

Descendants of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife, also known as Morning Star, who led the Cheyenne’s exodus in 1878 from Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) to a new Montana homeland.
Photo: by Chip Clark, courtesy of the Smithsonian Runner, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Yakama Nation Council member Clifford Moses preparing human remains for shipment.
Photo courtesy of Jane Beck, Repatriation Office, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C

Sculptor Allan Houser, working on a clay sculpture.
Photo: Kay V. Wiest, courtesy of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM.

Shoshone-Bannock delegates Hobby Hevewah, Corbin Harney, and Diane Yupe viewing objects at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Support Center in Maryland.
Photo courtesy of Jane Beck, Repatriation Office, National Museum Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Members of the Northern Cheyenne Nation prepare for the reburial of repatriated ancestral remains.
Photo: John Warner, St. Libre Indian School, courtesy of the Repatriation Office, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Crow Mother Kachina by Clark Tenakhongva, Hopi

Paul Bender and Martin Sullivan of The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona and John PrettyOnTop and Norman Dawes TwoLeggings of the Crow Tribe, signing a transfer agreement to enable repatriation of a Crow medicine hoop from the museum to the tribe, August 11, 1993, Phoenix, Arizona.
Photo: by Gloria A. Lomahaftewa, Hopi/Choctaw, courtesy of The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.