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Museums across the United States have been closing off sections and even covering displays in recent weeks due to new regulations on showcasing Native American artifacts.

The move comes as the Biden administration pushes for efforts to repatriate Native American remains, objects, and other sacred items.

NEW YORK — New York’s venerable American Museum of Natural History and leading institutions across the country are shutting down major exhibits of Native American artifacts in response to new federal regulations limiting the display of cultural items. Under the guidelines announced recently by the Biden administration, museums must obtain permission from Native American tribes before ...

The exhibits are from an era when museums "did not respect the values, perspectives, and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples," the museum's president said.

As new federal law requirements went live last week, museums and institutions holding Native American human remains and artifacts across the country scrambled to understand and implement new changes. On Jan. 9, three days before the new federal regulations went into effect, Chicago’s Field Museum covered several display cases containing cultural items from Native communities throughout the United States. “Pending consultation with the represented communities, we have covered all ...

The Field Museum in Chicago has recently made changes to its Ancient Americas and Northwest Coast and Arctic People exhibitions.

A museum in Rochester, New York, returned ancestral remains of 19 Native Americans and funerary artifacts to the Oneida Indian Nation on Wednesday, striving for a “small step in the service of justice.” The remains of Oneida ancestors include those of five men, three women and two adolescent girls who lived sometime between 200 to 3,000 years ago. A mix of pottery and other items traditionally buried with the dead were also returned, as required by federal law.

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