I was worried that this was more clickbait but itâs 100% true.
The auction went ahead as scheduled on Saturday, with the pipe expected to fetch $15,000 to $20,000, according to the auction catalog. But when the hammer fell on the bidding, the pipe was sold to an anonymous bidder for $39,975.
Shortly after the auction ended, the tribe learned that the winning bidder intended to return the pipe to the tribe.
The Prairie Island Tribal Historic Preservation Office, along with tribal spiritual leaders, will receive the pipe and handle it âthrough ceremony and community,â Buck said.
That would be a fitting fate for the pipe, which the tribe would see as having a life of its own, Doerfler explained.
âIn English, objects are generally inanimate,â she said. âBut in a lot of native cultures, that pipe has its own being, its own entity, and it has to be cared for.âSo with items like a pipe or a drum, items of cultural significance, the person who is the holder or the keeper of that object has a responsibility to care for it and to utilize it properly.â
Please note the anonymous part. This wasnât some rich white settler trying to get recognition, praise, or a reward. It was someone who recognized that this situation was wrong and that they were in a position to make it right and so they did.
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