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. As they seek to reconnect with ancestral belongings held in these collections, their journey raises important questions about cultural stewardship, identity, and Indigenous authority over Native heritage.

 

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Director: Mat Hames

Run Time: 57 min

Release: 2017

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