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Officials at a museum aren’t sure what to do with a request to turn over several artifacts of Chief Little Turtle, the Miami Indians’ distinguished war leader and treaty negotiator.
Tom Julian, a Minnesota art dealer, approached the museum last September, claiming to be a spokesman for the Miami Indians of Oklahoma. He asked for 30 artifacts taken from Little Turtle’s grave at Lawton Place, including silver used for trading, crosses, armbands, brooches, a pipe and a sword he received from George Washington.
“Everyone has a legitimate claim, and that makes things a whole lot more interesting,” said Bill Decker of the museum, who admits the society is “caught in the middle.”
