‘The Grand Ole Opry,’ a fixture in country music, turns 100
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
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And, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin reburied the remains of 67 ancestors that were excavated in the 1960s and held for decades by the Milwaukee Public Museum. The Association on American Indian’s Shannon O’Loughlin — also a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma — talks about the decades-long fight for Native American repatriation. David Grignon, a tribal elder and historic preservation officer with the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, also joins us.
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| 0:40.3 | A celebration of country music's biggest show, the Grand Ole Opry, turns 100 years old today. |
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| 1:09.8 | It's the day after Thanksgiving. |
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| 1:30.0 | From the bright lights of one of country music's biggest stages, to the overlooked stories of Native Americans, and how tribes from coast to coast are |
| 1:37.3 | repatriating the remains of their ancestors that have been held for decades in museums and |
| 1:43.2 | university archives. |
| 1:45.1 | It feels really good to bring them back. |
| 1:49.6 | They've been sitting on museum shelves for quite a while, |
| 1:53.1 | and good to get them back and feast and ceremony |
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