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Radio Interview with Nick Bellantoni, Former CT State Archaeologist and Author

Discussion with Dr. Nicholas Bellantoni, nicknamed "Connecticut's Indiana Jones, about his tenure as an archaeologist and his new book: "The Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry 'Opukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk." The book details how Henry Opukaha'ia (c.1792–1818), a Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (c.1879–1900), an Oglala Lakota, each individually decided to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut. Though […]