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

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 TikTok video about the Mebane Antique Auction Gallery in North Carolina listing a 600-year-old Indigenous skull for sale.

“There’s nothing that we can do about it in the state of North Carolina,” she said. “The bid is already up to $1,700.”

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