Native American bones and funerary objects that have been in a suburban Chicago museum collection for decades will be returned to a Michigan-based tribe. The Lake County Forest Preserve District approved plans to deliver the remains and objects to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Board President Ann B. Maine says the board is happy the remains and items "will go where they belong and receive the proper respect."
Pokagon official Marcus Winchester says his tribe is committed to restoring the reverence owed to Native American ancestors. He says the remains will be ceremoniously reburied.
The remains were on display until the 1990 adoption of a law requiring federally funded agencies and institutions to return Native American cultural items.
