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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

Chip Colwell

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? Thes...

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Behind the Bastards

It detailed the bone trade and the process of returning stolen skulls to their rightful tribes. It highlighted the slow pace of repatriation by institutions.

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there's a book I found about the bone trade in in stolen bones called plundered skulls and stolen spirits by Chip Colwell

— Episode: The Audubon Guy Was A Monster

Episode: The Audubon Guy Was A Monster

It detailed the bone trade and the process of returning stolen skulls to their rightful tribes. It highlighted the slow pace of repatriation by institutions.

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there's a book I found about the bone trade in in stolen bones called plundered skulls and stolen spirits by Chip Colwell

Episode: The Audubon Guy Was A Monster

It's a book that details the history of the trade in stolen human remains, including the work of Chip Colwell in museums, who helps put together groups of bones to send back to the tribes they were stolen from.

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there's a book I found about the bone trade in in stolen bones called plundered skulls and stolen spirits by Chip Colwell who's like an ant doing part of his job is to like sit in a museum and put together groups of bones to send back to the tribes.

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