The Long Journey Home
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.10.1
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Oklahoma
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the Office of Repatriation, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History in 1993.
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (14 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1993.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Television broadcast produced by Channel 5 presents the story of repatriation of Cheyenne Indian human remains from the 1864 Sand Creek massacre. Bodies from the massacre were gathered by Army surgeons for research and ultimately were given to the Smithsonian. The remains were claimed by the Cheyenne for proper burial on homelands in Oklahoma in 1993.

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