The Return Of The Ancestors

Authors

Robert E. Bieder

Keywords

Cemetery, Indian, Skeleton

Abstract

In 1971, an Iowa road crew accidentally unearthed an unmarked

cemetery. There were twenty-eight skeletons. Twenty-seven belonged to

whites, and state money quickly paid for their reburial. The other, a young

female Indian was packed in a box and shipped off to the University of

Iowa and the state archeologist. A local Indian by the name Running

Moccasins learned of the Incident and demanded that the woman's bones

be returned for proper burial.

Recommended Citation

Bieder, Robert E. (2019) "The Return Of The Ancestors," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 55: No. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol55/iss3/4