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...Harvard Peabody Museum has answered that the "original" owners of the works deserve to have them back--at least in some cases. The museum recently returned to the Omaha Native Americans of Nebraska a collection of sacred objects that it had "held in trust for nearly 100 years...
...anthropologist Alice Fletcher, who later donated them to the Peabody Museum. The collection consisted of animal skins, bottles, shells, and boxes associated with bison hunt rituals and the Sacred Pole, a revered totem that according to the Gazette "embodied the spirit of the tribe." When Fletcher was in Nebraska, the "ritual objects were no longer being used" and would probably have been destroyed had she not saved them...
...Senate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment gave women the incentive to run. This year 11 were candidates for Governor, 87 for Congress, eight for the Senate, and hundreds more for local office. Compare that with the paucity of female officeholders before Election Day: three women Governors (in Vermont, Nebraska and Arizona), 28 of the 435 Representatives in the House and just two of 100 Senators...
...major impetus for women this year was the Supreme Court's Webster decision in July 1989, which opened the way for states to pass laws restricting abortion. Of the 76 women still in congressional and statewide campaigns after the primaries, only three -- Governor Kay Orr of Nebraska, who was seeking re-election; Joan Finney, running for Governor of Kansas; and Senate candidate M. Jane Brady in Delaware -- did not offer themselves as pro-choice candidates...
...Lowell Weicker vexed the GOP again, this time as an outsider, with an independent victory for governor of Connecticut. Republican Gov. Kay Orr was trailing, barely, in Nebraska...