Throughout the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, Native American “artifacts” were on evident display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology pavilion, the Indian boarding school exhibition, the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West performance, and even the metalwork company Tiffany & Co.’s display. While these contexts impose narratives of Native American decline and assimilation, re-thinking this material culture through the lens of Native American and Indigenous studies as animate and relational Belongings invites new questions and interpretations about how Indigenous epistemologies inhere and communicate even within these restrictive contexts.