Long story short, Dr. Mayo way back in 1862 dug up a shallow grave of a warrior of the Santee tribe and
The young doctor carted the corpse to his office, dissected it, melted off the flesh and made a skeleton he studied and allowed his children to play with.
The young doctor’s name was William Mayo. He moved Cut Nose’s skull to the famous hospital he founded. The stolen skull remained there, on proud display and then simply lost, for more than a century, until Mayo returned it to his family in the late 1990s
The Mayo Clinic is apologizing for that now.