"Who Owns the Past?: Missouri's Indigenous History, Museum Work, and Repatriation" Presentation by Brady Wolf
Date and time
Nov 10, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. CST
Location
518 S. Fountain St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum will host a presentation, "Who Owns the Past?: Missouri's Indigenous History, Museum Work, and Repatriation," by Brady Wolf, Curator of Indigenous Collection at the Missouri Historical Society.
Curator and Repatriation Specialist Brady Wolf provides an overview that explores Missouri's Indigenous history and culture, collection and curation practices, and the intersection of the two in repatriation work.
Missouri has been home to Indigenous peoples from the Paleolithic era to the present. For centuries, European and American historians and laymen alike have speculated about their industries, religions, languages, and ways of life. Historically, this curiosity meant that Indigenous cultural heritage was aggressively taken from burials, village sites, reservations, and individuals.
Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has governed the return of Ancestral remains for many of these items and has profoundly impacted the museum industry. This curator presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. at Crisp Museum and is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Crisp Museum at museum@semo.edu or (573) 651-2260.