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Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations

This preview of a digital embed shows a table of federal data that shows some 880,000 items that should be returned to tribes by law and are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country. (AP Digital Embed)

This preview of a digital embed shows a table of federal data that shows some 880,000 items that should be returned to tribes by law and are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the country. (AP Digital Embed)

Leola One Feather, right, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, talks with Jeffrey Not Help Him, left, also an Oglala Sioux tribe member, while Native American artifacts are photographed on July 19, 2022, at the Founders Museum in Barre, Massachusetts. The private museum, which is housed in the town library, is working to repatriate as many as 200 items believed to have been taken from Native Americans massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

Leola One Feather, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, stands outside the Woods Memorial Library on July 19, 2022 in Barre, Massachusetts. The library houses the Founders Museum, a private museum that is working to repatriate as many as 200 items believed to have been taken from Native Americans massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. One Feather was among the tribe members overseeing the documentation of the items ahead of their expected return. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

Leola One Feather, right, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, lines up a grouping as John Willis photographs, left, Native American artifacts on July 19, 2022, at the Founders Museum in Barre, Massachusetts. The private museum, which is housed in the town library, is working to repatriate as many as 200 items believed to have been taken from Native Americans massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Willis is photographing the items for documentation, ahead of their expected return to the tribe. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

Leola One Feather, left, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, observes as John Willis photographs Native American artifacts on July 19, 2022, at the Founders Museum in Barre, Massachusetts. The private museum, which is housed in the town library, is working to repatriate as many as 200 items believed to have been taken from Native Americans massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Willis is photographing the items for documentation, ahead of their expected return to the tribe. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations