At the Founders Museum, some 70 miles west of Boston, among the challenges has been determining what’s truly from the Wounded Knee Massacre, says Ann Meilus, the museum's board president.

After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to ...

Now, a number of those personal possessions stolen from the victims of Wounded Knee have ended up in the collection of the Barre Museum here in Massachusetts. A group of descendants of Wounded Knee ...

Manny Iron Hawk speaking in Barre, Massachusetts, in April after he visited the museum that has some objects taken from those massacred at Wounded Knee South Dakota in 1890.

Every year in late December, Native people gather at the mass grave site in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, to pray for those slaughtered by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890.

Retropolis Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee. Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain ...

At age 9, Jackson He Crow not only survived the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 by running and hiding, he also rescued his mother who had been shot by the U.S. Cavalry. (Nancy Eve Cohen/NEPM) ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — About 150 sacred artifacts were returned to representatives of the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes on Saturday after being stored at a small Massachusetts museum ...

The items include artifacts that the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes believe are a direct link to the Wounded Knee Massacre that killed approximately 250 Native Americans in 1890.

Peace offerings of tobacco ties adorn the fence at the Wounded Knee Memorial on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on Oct. 20, 2014. ... dark museum in Barre, Mass.

Lakota members said the artifacts stemmed from the 1890 massacre that killed approximately 250 Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek. However, the museum said it believes the artifacts could stem ...

Manny Iron Hawk speaking in Barre, Massachusetts, in April after he visited the museum that has some objects taken from those massacred at Wounded Knee South Dakota in 1890.