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Article: Indian tribes at odds over artifacts.(The Providence Journal)
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- October 19, 2000
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ It's not a major collection by anyone's standards: A handful of glass and shell beads, a glass bottle and two small brass kettles.
But the items _ housed in the basement of Harvard University's Peabody Museum _ have sparked a feud between two of the largest Indian tribes in New England, who say the artifacts belong to them.
The dispute erupted several weeks ago when the museum said it would return the items, taken from graves in Tiverton, to the Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts.
That decision angered John Brown, the Narragansett Indians' historic preservation officer.
"These things came from our ancestral ...