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VOL. 99 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 36
Remains returned to tribe members
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
A portion of the American-Indian
remains housed on UNL property
received a permanent home Friday.
Members of the Ponca tribe of
Nebraska and Southern Ponca tribe of
Oklahoma buried the remains of their
ancestors Friday afternoon at a ceme
tery south ofNiobrara, which is near the
South Dakota border.
On Thursday, members of both
tribes transported the remains from a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln facility
at 1820 R St.
Before leaving the room, spiritual
leaders held a cedar blessing in the place
where remains of their ancestors sat
while the federal government, the uni
versity and tribal leaders worked out the
details of repatriation, said Phillip
Wendzillo, Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act repre
sentative for the Ponca tribe of
Nebraska.
After sitting in cardboard boxes for
months while the terms of repatriation
were worked out, the remains are now
truly put to rest, Wendzillo said.
“The tribal members believe (their
ancestors) can’t have final rest until the
spirit and bones are where they are sup
posed to be,” Wendzillo said.
Tribal members held a vigil on
Thursday night and Friday morning,
holding ceremonial sweats and prepar
ing to bury the bones, he said.
There will be no memorial or sign to
marie where the remains are buried.
“We’ll just have the reburial to close
this out,” he said.
University officials assisted the
tribe in claiming the remains. After pro
viding a luncheon for tribal members,
UNL officials provided everything trib
al leaders requested to carry out the
repatriation, Wendzillo said.
“They made sure we had everything
we needed and requested,” Wendzillo
said. “They did everything in a very dig
nified manner.”
The remains buried on Friday repre
sent just a portion of nearly 1,700
remains held in the 1820 R St. facility.
More than 600 of the remains are
a
Not only will we make sure our ancestors
get buried, but we want to help others in
any way we can
Phillip Wendzillo
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act representative
identified as unaffiliated with any cer
tain tribe. Wendzillo said the identifica
tion and burial of the unaffiliated
remains is a separate issue that the tribe
will continue to monitor.
“If we can be involved in any way,
we sure will,” Wendzillo said. “Not only
will we make sure our ancestors get
buried, but we want to help others in any
way we can.”
Remains belonging to the Omaha
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UNL JUNIOR GINGER LOVELACE meditates over scripture amid the splendor of the Sunken Garden on Friday afternoon.
i Garden brings happiness to community
By Veronica Daehn
Staffwriter
More than 200,000 people come to
Lincoln each year to visit a garden built in a
hole in the ground.
The Sunken Garden, located at the comer
of 27th and C streets, was built in 1931 during
the Great Depression.
In a time when there was so much sorrow,
its purpose was to make people happy.
Almost 70 years later, it is still doing just
that.
“It’s a different way of looking at life,” said
Steve Nosal, Parks and Recreation horticul
turist. “The garden has all this energy. It’s a
festival.”
Almost 30,000 plants filled the garden this
year, said Alice Reed, who is in her 17th year
of gardening at the Sunken Garden.
As the temperature grows colder, however,
most of the flowers in Lincoln’s Sunken
Gardens will die.
But that doesn’t mean people will stop
coming.
“In the winter, it does slow down,” Reed
said. “But it’s a winter wonderland at that
point.”
Lincoln residents wishing to see the gar
den before the “wonderland” begins should do
so before Friday, when Reed said the water
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Gay rights
supporters
unhappy
with KETV
■ The channel’s decision to cancel
an interview about National Coming
Out Day results in angry phone calls.
By Dane Stickney
Staff writer
For most of last week, Rose Ann Shannon was
bombarded with a myriad of angry phone calls
from supporters of Omaha’s gay community.
Shannon, news director at Omaha’s KETV
news station, recently decided to cancel an inter
view concerning National Coming Out Day
because it would have been too controversial.
The interview with a planner of Omaha’s
National Coming Out Day festivities, which were
held Saturday, was scheduled for Oct. 5.
The interview would have described what
events were planned to encourage people to better
understand die meaning of National Coming Out
Day.
On Oct. 1, Shannon met with her general man
ager and decided the interview would have been
against KETV viewers’ best interests.
“We have a policy on the types of interviews
we allow on our newscasts,” Shannon said. “All
interviews promoting a certain event must be non
controversial.”
When asked what controversy National
Coming Out Day caused, Shannon responded,
“I’m not even going to go down that road”
Shannon said this is the first time in her recol
lection that an interview had to be canceled
because of controversy.
“This usually doesn’t come up,” she said “We
just don’t schedule these types of interviews.”
KETV reporter and anchor Carol Kloss origi
nally setup an interview with Linda Richenberg, a
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