Larry Echo Hawk, assistant Interior secretary for Indian Affairs, says tribes should have first priority for reclaiming artifacts taken from tribal and federal lands across the Southwest. (Associated Press)
Staff interpreter Alex Rose poses with a buffalo stomach on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, which is one of several tools he'll be using during his presentation 'Of Man and Best: Native Americans and the Buffalo' this Sunday at the National Historic Trails Center in Caper, Wyo. Native Americans would use the buffalo stomach as a bucket, and they would also stuff it with meat and cook it over a fire. (AP Photo/Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)
Alex Rose holds buffalo dung and powder he rubbed from the dung. Native Americans would use the dung as fuel and also the dried powder as baby powder, according to Rose. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
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