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Pasco County’s plan to expand and update Anclote River Park has attracted the attention of organizations that work to protect the sacred sites, historical settings and burial grounds of indigenous Florida residents. A letter to the county earlier this month from the American Indian Movement of Florida and the Florida Indigenous Alliance put county officials on notice that they were watching ...

Alaska tribes and the University of Alaska Fairbanks will receive more than $350,000 in grants as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, known as NAGPRA, the

The indigenous organizations cite numerous rules regulating development near historic mounds and cemeteries.

Mary Hudetz describes the financial cost and emotional distress that tribal communities face as they continue to wait for the return of the remains of their ancestors, thousands of which are held in museums across the country.

Alaska tribes and the University of Alaska Fairbanks will receive grants to bring objects of cultural significance back to Alaska.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, passed in 1990, mandated the return of remains to tribes. But its implementation across the country has been slow.

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

Trailblazing Native American attorney John E. Echohawk (Pawnee Nation) was honored with the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) on August 5 at ABA Annual Meeting in Denver. The award was established to honor the impact and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer, and the court’s first Black justice. As an attorney, Marshall won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, creat...

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) has been awarded a total of $143,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

East Lyme ― Descendants of the Nehantic Tribe working to unearth a forgotten past now plan to bring home the remains of at least two dozen ancestors to be buried again. A proposal from Lyme-based arc...