At Fort Brady in northern Michigan, near the St. Marys River, where Lake Superior drains toward Lake Huron, artifacts from America’s past are being reclassified as Native American funerary objects. A joint repatriation inventory by Michigan State University and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers now lists bottle caps, bolts, doorknobs, glass bottles, a hairbrush, a harmonica, historic ceramics, a light bulb, a bullet, burlap, a musket ball, a pencil, plastic, a pocket watch, a toy gun, and other plainly historic materials as funerary objects, slated for repatriation and pulled from the reach of researchers.
That should alarm anyone who cares about preserving America’s history. Fort Brady was not simply a Native American site. It was occupied by Native American tribes, then the French Colonial Army, and later the U.S. Army. Established in 1822, Fort Brady remained in operation until 1944, with thousands of soldiers and officers stationed there over more than a century. After the U.S. Army closed the fort, the site became part of the Lake Superior State University campus.
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