Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Calls for an Essential Reclamation

Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Calls for an Essential Reclamation

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Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Calls for an Essential Reclamation

Long before his campaign in the 1800s to displace indigenous peoples from their land, Thomas Jefferson was looting burial sites under the pretense of seeking scientific knowledge. His actions occurred before numerous archaeologists later engaged in similar activities, which involved disturbing and excavating human remains and accumulating their bodies and/or artifacts.