The University of Idaho is set to repatriate artifacts to the Nez Perce Tribe.
The items include a sacred whistle, a wooden stick, a button, a shell and a rounded cork. They were found in a box that had been overlooked.
"[T]he greatest feeling in the world is meeting with the tribe, and handing the items back over to them, and knowing things are coming back to where they should be - kind of tipping the balance in the universe to where things should be," anthropologist Leah Evans-Janke told the Associated Press.
The items came from a site near the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
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(AP 6/2)
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