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What Was Ours

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An Eastern Shoshone Elder and two Northern Arapaho youth living on the Wind River Indian Reservation attempt to learn why thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten. Like millions of Indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved, locked away, by ‘outsiders’ who themselves do not know what they have.


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Director:
Mat Hames
Producer:
Beth Hames & Jordan Dresser
Run Time:
57 min
Release:
2017
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