Modesto Junior College begins repatriation of Native American ancestors, artifacts

These artifacts and these ancestral bones have been used to parade our people, to use as tokenism… almost like we’re ...
MinnPost

ProPublica updates its database of museums’ and universities’ compliance with Federal Repatriation Law

Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and ...
Lehigh Valley Live

Commentary: Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations, with ...
insider.si.edu

Repatriation reader : who owns American Indian remains? / edited by Devon A. Mihesuah

Introduction / Devon A. Mihesuah -- The representations of Indian bodies in nineteenth-century American anthropology / Robert E. Bieder -- Digging for identity: reflections on the cultural background ...
Albuquerque Journal

OPINION: A turning point for Native American repatriation

Earlier this month, the 35th anniversary of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) passed quietly. This landmark legislation reflected a national consensus to stop the ...