Tribal Museums and Cultural Centers

Tribal Museums and Cultural Centers

The Tunica-Biloxi Regional Indian Center and Museum was opened in 1989 to house the “Tunica Treasure” - Tribal grave goods which had been stolen from a Tribal burial ground by a grave robber who desecrated this burial site in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The journey for the Tunica Treasure was that of a long legal battle from the burial site into the possession of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe. There was no reliable record of the gravesite as to which individual burial had what objects in it, so rather than mass bury the ...