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The Biden administration has waived 26 environmental laws to speed the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas.

Native American cultural items, including pottery, weapons, and sacred objects have long been the target of theft and acquisitions by people seeking to collect or sell them.

CARLISLE, Penn. — Smudged sage billowed into the air on Sept. 19, as members from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe of South Dakota and Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota carried small wooden coffins containing their relatives’ remains to the tribal van that would bring them home after nearly 150 years away.

In an update to its Human Remains Policy, the archeology museum will no longer consider exhibiting any exposed human remains.

Penn Museum has updated its policies regarding the handling of human remains, and decided to no longer put “exposed” remains on exhibition.

Amos, a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate boy who died at just 13 years old, was buried in the tribal repatriation cemetery on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota.

The move to hand over the bodies after nearly 150 years was called unprecedented as concessions long sought by tribes were met over the repatriation of students who died at boarding schools.

MISSOURI – Nearly 3,300 Native American remains once unearthed in Missouri are still awaiting repatriation to their respective tribes, even though

The move to hand over the bodies after nearly 150 years was called unprecedented as concessions long sought by tribes were met over the repatriation of students who died at boarding schools.

The move to hand over the bodies after nearly 150 years was called unprecedented as concessions long sought by tribes were met over the repatriation of students who died at boarding schools.