Tag: Lenape
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Decades after displaying book bound with human skin, Denver’s Iliff School of Theology still working to make amends
Nearly a half-century ago, a patch of human skin, stretched and tanned like an animal hide, was hand-carried to Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation and quietly buried. No one knows where it is. The cover was given to Arapaho spiritual leaders, and whether Arapaho Sundancers buried it – or somebody else did – is now lost to…