Indigenous Chief Black Coal Headdress Of Northern Arapaho Tribe

Description:

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 2020 (approximate)
Year Claim Resolved: 2020
Means of Resolution: Sua sponte donation

Complainant Name: Northern Arapaho Tribe
Complainant Nation: United States Tribal Nations
Complainant Nation Economy: Developing
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: Temple Smith
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Individual

Reference Links:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200202130136/https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/headdress-of-revered-northern-arapaho-leader-returned-to-tribe/article_754c226e-dc8a-5b75-87c6-ddcf91a2aeab.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20200207121220/https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/bringing-a-chief-home-tribe-celebrates-return-of-headdress-hopes/article_b5b1c94e-3e66-5be4-8a58-b91a8f3aa8e3.html

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Editor's Notes:

Supposedly, Temple Smith is the great-grandson of a dentist from Buffalo who travelled to the reservation to do work, and one of his patients, Black Coal, gifted him the headdress. Read more about Tribal Nation repatriation efforts and processes in the second URL link. Edited by Arianne Ohara