(18 Sep 2023)
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Springfield, Illinois - 18 August 2023
1. Wide of boxes warehoused at Illinois State Museum Research and Collections building
HEADLINE: New law to help return Native American remains
2. Medium of boxes warehoused at Illinois State Museum Research and Collections building
ANNOTATION: The Illinois State Museum holds one of the largest collections of ancestral human remains in the U.S.
3. Medium of Brooke Morgan, Curator of Anthropology at Illinois State Museum walking through the Research and Collections building
ANNOTATION: These ancestral remains belong to tribes native to Illinois, who were once forcibly removed from the state.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Morgan, Curator of Anthropology at Illinois State Museum:
“What is now Illinois was really a crossroads in a place where lots of people lived throughout the past and built monumental architecture like mounds, interred a lot of their deceased relatives in those mounds, and then the mounds were disturbed through looting, through bulldozing, through excavation.”
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5. CU of boxes warehoused at Illinois State Museum Research and Collections building
6. Medium of Brooke Morgan pointing to poster inside Illinois State Museum Research and Collections building
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Morgan, Curator of Anthropology at Illinois State Museum:
“One of the biggest things about the law, which we're very excited for at the museum, is that it allows the state to create reburial areas on state property for repatriated Native American remains. Now we're at the point where we are ready to repatriate large amounts of ancestors and they need a place to go.”
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8. Medium of Brooke Morgan at her desk
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Morgan, Curator of Anthropology at Illinois State Museum:
“Tribal nations want to be able to rebury their ancestors in Illinois where they lived and not necessarily take them to where the tribes have been removed to now, whether that's Oklahoma or Kansas or Michigan.”
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10. Various of Brooke Morgan looking at boxes warehoused at Illinois State Museum Research and Collections building
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Dowagiac, Michigan -10 August 2023
11. Wide of entrance to the headquarters of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
ANNOTATION: Some of these ancestral remains are culturally affiliated to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians who had a historical presence in Illinois.
12. CU of Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians logo
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Bussler, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians:
“We want those ancestors to be reburied as close to where they were found as possible because they were buried there for a reason.”
14. Various of historical pictures hanging on the walls of headquarters of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Bussler, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians:
“And when you remove them from there and put them into a cardboard box in an institution to just collect dust for 100 years, it's extremely detrimental on the emotional and spiritual well-being of that community.”
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16. Various of Matthew Bussler using mapping instrument
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Bussler, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer at Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians:
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18. Various of safety pin exhibit in the headquarters of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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