A Swiss private collector is selling a massive collection of thousands of Indigenous pipes, firearms, and cultural items, valued at over $17 million. A group is leading an effort to repatriate the items that are nearly 200 years old. They originated with First Nations and potentially U.S. tribes. The group is hoping to raise millions of dollars to bring these items home before they fall into another private collector’s hands. We’ll discuss the struggle to reclaim items from overseas private collectors, alongside a the broader push make museums and universities return ancestral items by a 2029 deadline.

Plus, we’ll look at a pivotal U.S. Supreme Covurt case deciding the future of birthright citizenship, just as their current term ends.

GUESTS

Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw), chief executive and attorney for the Association on American Indian Affairs

Coleen Rajotte (Cree), journalist, Sixties Scoop survivor, and repatriation advocate

Lance White (Santee Dakota and Arikara), repatriation advocate

Robert Miller (Eastern Shawnee), law professor at Arizona State University and tribal judge

Gerald Neufeld, repatriation researcher and advocate