Like tens of millions of indigenous individuals, many Native American tribes don't management their very own materials historical past and tradition. For the Japanese Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes residing on the remoted Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with misplaced artifacts dangers opening outdated wounds but in addition provides the chance for therapeutic. What Was Ours is the story of how a younger journalist and a teenage powwow princess, each of the Arapaho tribe, travelled along with a Shoshone elder searching for lacking artifacts within the huge archives of Chicago’s Area Museum. There they uncover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recuperate what has been misplaced and construct hope for the long run.
