The Frantic Push to Save a Native American Skull From the Auction Block

‘IT’S DISGUSTING’

“Would you want somebody selling your ancestors’ bones?” Indigenous activist Crystal Cavalier-Keck said in a TikTok video as she drove to the auction house.

Race and Identity Reporter

Published Mar. 29 2023 6:53PM EDT

Screen_Shot_2023-03-29_at_6.12.30_PM_1_kqkvs8 — Crystal Cavalier-Keck

A group of advocates for Native American heritage dramatically shut down the auction of a human skull just moments before it was about to go under the hammer in North Carolina over the weekend.

On Friday, Crystal Cavalier-Keck, an Indigenous advocate of the Occaneechi band of the Saponi tribe, uploaded a...

Brooke Leigh Howard

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The Frantic Push to Save a Native American Skull From the Auction Block

“Would you want somebody selling your ancestors’ bones?” Indigenous activist Crystal Cavalier-Keck said in a TikTok video as she drove to the auction house.

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Brooke Leigh Howard