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While some artifacts belonging to the region's indigenous peoples have been returned, many remains haven't been repatriated.

The agreement is "finally righting a wrong that was done to us so many years ago," said one Arapaho tribe member.

Sep. 17—Its been more than 30 years since the U.S. Congress acknowledged that Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts first and foremost belong to the indigenous people of their origin.

Multiple Nebraska museums in possession of Native remains say they are either on the verge of returning or restarting efforts to return them to their rightful tribes.

Institutions say they are either on the verge of returning or restarting efforts to return the remains to their rightful tribe. Museums say they are either on the verge of returning or restarting efforts to return the remains.

The Harvard morgue scandal is not the first time a university’s morgue was caught stealing and selling cadavers, and it fits into a long, macabre tradition in...

The Longyear Museum of Anthropology, located inside Alumni Hall at Colgate University, announced that it will be temporarily closed for the semester. The museum — which made the announcement via Instagram on Wednesday, Sept. 6 — cited the decision as an effort to focus on local repatriation matters. Co-Director of University Museums and Curator of...

The inability to provide a proper burial is a familiar atrocity for tribes across the U.S., where the push to correct those injustices has found renewed energy since the 2021 discovery of mass graves

The bill would require the system to make policies on the handling of Native American human remains and cultural items. The bill would require the CSU system to comply with Cal NAGPRA and make a number of systemwide policies on aspects of cultural items and human remains.

Numerous Native American remains and artifacts are stored in boxes, confined to basements and museums across the California State University (CSU)