German ‘Wild West’ museum to repatriate Native American scalp
27 November 2020 |
3:43 pm
Germany's Karl May museum has agreed to "re-humanize" a Native American scalp from its collection, six years after initial pleas by the Chippewa tribe. It took a sea-change in attitude for the museum to accept the plea.
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