“What Was Ours” Film Screening with Co-Producer Jordan Dresser

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• Friday, Oct 25, 2024  5:30pm - 7pm

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“What Was Ours” film screening and talk-back about repatriation from Co-Producer Jordan Dresser

October 25 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Members of the Museum are free, $10 for non-members

Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future.

Join Jordan for a talk-back after the film. Since its release Jordan has served a term as Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Tribe and has been the first Northern Arapaho named to a federal commission, Deb Haaland’s Commission for Violence Against Native Americans.