Hide Article Text (OCR)
Running MoccasinsObjected to StudyGlenwood Reburial Seen In Indian Bone DisputeBv Gene RaffenspergerThe two sides in the dispute about, the bones of an Indian girl dug up near Glenwood agreed Monday the matter probably will be settled with a scientific study and reburial at a white man's cemetery.The controversy arose when Mrs. Maria Thompson Pearson of Marne, a Yankton Sioux Indian whose Indian name is Run- * ning Moccasins, objected to the state of Jowa taking the bones to Iowa City for study.I) r . Marshal! McKusick, state archeologlst, said it was his duty, under a stato law which entrusts hint with articles of historical significance, lo take the skeleton.The bones, identified as (hose of a young Indian woman, were found by state highway crews working west of Glenwood. Also found were the graves of 26 whites in an old cemetery.The remains of the. whiles subsequently were reburied in Glenwood Cemetery, but the Indian girl’s remains were taken to Tcwa City.Mrs. Pearson first said she wanted the slate to return the remains to the proper tribe for Indian reburial. She threatened lo stage an all-Indian protest march on McKusick’s office.“Indians look at their dead differently than the white man,” Running Moccasins has argued. “An Indian, even if she is dead, has a right to remainan Indian;”.......However, she said in an interview Monday that she has written McKusick a letter saying that reburying the remains and the girl's personal belongings at t h e Glenwood Cemetery — “would be satisfactory with the Indian people since that is where the other Indian you found is burled and since that is in the area of the original find.”McKusick said Monday there was only one Indian skeleton found at the site.Said McKusick: “I will put a man on the study of these bones immediately. When that is Finished wc will have them reburied in the Glenwood Cemetery.”McKusick said the bones will be reburied at the Glenwood Cemetery unless areheologists t determine they are of such his-1 torical value that they should / be preserved.McKusick said it appears,however, that the Indian was buried in the period between 1840 and I860, which would be about the same time the white persons were buried in the same area.McKusick said fhn study should determine when the Indian woman was buried and perhaps what tribe she came from.He said he has asked the attorney general's office to begin work on getting a court order that will be necessary lo have the bones reburied.7-Year-Old Girl Struck by AutoA 7-year-old • girl escaped serious injury Monday when she was struck by a car while crossing Easton Boulevard, police said. .Denise Tellis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tellis of 1706 E. Twenty-eighth St., was treated at Des Moines General Hospital for bumps and abrasions and was released.Police said the youngster was crossing Easton near the intersection of E. Twenty-seventh Court about 4 p.m. when she was struck by a car driven by Homer Miller, 51, of Runnells and was knocked down. No charges were filed, officers said.
Newspaper Details
Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 13, 1971
Page 13
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
IA, USA 30 Apr 2017
Other Publications Near Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines Daily Leader
Des Moines Register and Leader
Des Moines Iowa State Register
Iowa Industrial Progress
Des Moines Daily News
