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JACKSON — It was July 1936, and a torrent of rain had been falling on the anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka and his team, who were searching for human remains deep in

The Berkshire Museums repatriation of remains to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe was part of a larger process that began in 1990 when a landmark federal law ordered America’s museums and universities

JACKSON — It was July 1936, and a torrent of rain had been falling on the anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka and his team, who were searching for human remains deep in

A federal law was supposed to ensure returns of most remains by 1995. So why are thousands of Arizona tribal remains still not back with their people?

The Longyear Museum of Anthropology, located within Alumni Hall, was originally founded by John Munro Longyear III, a Colgate University professor in the department of sociology and anthropology in the 1950s. Known for its iconic collections featuring cultural heritage materials from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Indonesia and Oceania, Longyear serves as a physical engagement with...

In California, a state law requires universities to show their work trying to reunite native remains with the tribes they belong to. Assemblymember James Ramos, who is a Native American, is calling out California universities that are failing to return those remains.

In California, a state law requires universities to show their work trying to reunite native remains with the tribes they belong to. Assemblymember James Ramos, who is a Native American, is calling out California universities that are failing to return those remains.

For more than 140 years, two children of Sioux leaders lay in a Pennsylvania cemetery far from their Dakota homes. After the Kamloops tragedy, their relations redoubled efforts to bring them back and find ways to heal

The latest addition to the prestigious UNESCO list—the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, created by Indigenous people 2,000 years ago—“preserves the future of our past.”

This past week, tribal leaders, museum employees, academics, government officials, and repatriation practitioners gathered together in Shawnee, Oklahoma to discuss returning Indigenous human remains and burial objects back to their rightful tribal nations. The conference's theme was "Building the Next Fire."