Cree woman tracks down her great-great grandfather's remains — in a U.S. museum warehouse

An email from a Washington Post reporter led Eden Fineday on a journey to a warehouse in Maryland to perform a ceremony to honour her ancestor's remains.Cree musician and writer Eden Fineday is the publisher of IndigiNews and a descendent of ka-mîtosis, or Little Poplar, a Plains Cree warrior, whose remains she recently visited at a Smithsonian facility in Maryland. Eden Fineday never anticipated that an email would lead her to finding her ancestor's remains in a U.S.

A document from the Smithsonian shows Little Poplar's skull was donated to the Museum of Natural History in 1894 by an army surgeon who dug up his remains. to repatriate the remains. Anyone with personal or legal right to those remains can file a formal request to the museum for repatriation. Stolen totem pole formally welcomed home to Nisga'a territory after nearly a century in Scottish museum

"It was an incredible feeling, but it was also a very intense feeling. Like, I was just destroyed afterwards. I was so tired I could barely utter a word."Fineday says meeting a fellow Indigenous woman who could relate to her journey instantly made her feel more comfortable. According to Smithsonian documents, his remains were dug up by army surgeon Charles Woodruff and "donated" to the Smithsonian Institution in 1894.

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