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| Chief Standing Bear's Tomahawk. Source: NewsOn6 site (link below). |
BOSTON (AP) — A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, has been returned to his tribe after being housed for decades in a museum at Harvard University.
Members of the Ponca tribes in Nebraska and Oklahoma visited the Massachusetts university on June 3 for the ceremonial return of the artifact, the tribes said in a recent announcement.
Standing Bear had originally gifted the pipe-tomahawk to one of his lawyers after winning the 1879 court case that made him one of the first Native Americans granted civil rights...
“We talk about generational trauma, but we don’t talk about generational healing, and that’s what we’re doing now,” she said in a statement. “This is healing.”...
Here are the links.
Harvard returns Standing Bear’s tomahawk to Nebraska tribe | News | charkoosta.com
Standing Bear Tomahawk Returned To Ponca Tribe (newson6.com)
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| Bronze Age Ax. Source: See link below. |
During research of a well-known archaeological site, a rare archaeological object was found - an axe from the Early Bronze Age.
The smaller axe is 9.5 cm long, and has an enlarged fan-shaped cutting part, shallowly-grooved flat sides with hints of the side rails and a pointed tulle. It belongs to the so-called Saxon-type axe, the oldest specimens of which were still made of copper...
Here is the link for the rest of that article.
Axe from Early Bronze Age found in Skalica - spectator.sme.sk
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The Mel Fisher organization reports Several artifacts were found on the last trip to the Atocha site: 2 silver coins, barrel hoops, pottery along with a ballast stuck in the hard mud.
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Nothing of import on the tropical weather scene and the surf will be down around two feet on the Treasure Coast this week.