Description
LeBeau accompanied his mother, Marcella, on a trip to Glasgow in 1998 in an effort to repatriate a Ghost Dance Shirt from the Kelvingrove Museum (it had been sold to the museum by George Crager, the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show interpreter). He and his mother addressed the Council. According to Marcella LeBeau, “As we spoke, people said there was sobbing in the audience.” The council voted to repatriate the shirt a few days later and the shirt was repatriated in the summer of 1999.
Bibliographic sources
Nancy Moses, “Ghost Dancing at Wounded Knee,” in Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).