KC Area Museums Reviewing Extensive Indigenous Holdings

KC Area Museums Reviewing Extensive Indigenous Holdings

Arrowheads, skinning knives, spearheads pulled from Kansas City fields, and prehistoric woven fibers teased from centuries-cold fire pits sit on the floor of a closed wing of the Wyandotte County Historical Museum. They are now under a year-long review to comply with strict federal guidelines designed to give Native American tribes greater control of the items’ fate. Few area residents know about the small museum nestled downwind of the Kansas S…