Chip Colwell

Editor-in-Chief, Curator, Sapiens, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Chip Colwell is editor-in-chief of SAPIENS and curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. His latest book is Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (2017). He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Anthropology

The scalp from Sand Creek

Even after museums return human remains pillaged from a massacre in 1864, can repatriation heal the wounds of history?

Chip Colwell