“I told myself when I was writing this, that I wasn't going to make a promise that I couldn't keep.
She said she plans for her office to do a complete assessment of its repatriation process to determine how to decrease the amount of time it takes them to respond to repatriation requests. “I would not have taken on this role if I were nearly coming on board to be a caretaker for the status quo,” Lippert said on Wednesday, November 8. Lippert was hired this month as the museum’s new repatriation program manager, She is the first woman and first Native American to hold her position. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s newest hire, Dorothy Lippert (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) spoke about the new vision of repatriation at the National Museum of Natural History.
Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) delivered a keynote about her new novel, Warrior Girl Unearthed, a thriller she described as a “Native Laura Croft,”with a twist: Instead of robbing tombs, her main character robs museums to take back her ancestors. New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste.
