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“She’s taught all of us that Native values make Americans stronger.” - President Barack Obama

U.S. laws on the repatriation of Indigenous artifacts and remains still uphold inequities in the relationships between Indigenous people and the agencies holding their materials.

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New revised regulations to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act could limit what is displayed in museums.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries thousands of Chinese men sliced, gutted, and packed salmon into cans every summer, from the Columbia River to Naknek. Many of them

This post was updated March 10 at 9:50 p.m. They marched into the city in the early morning light. Wearing pith helmets and wielding rifles affixed with bayonets, the British colonial soldiers were shocked by what they found.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has closed its "Chumash Life" hall and is awaiting consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.

Experts offer a better look at the state of in-house provenance research as institutions respond to increased seizures of looted or stolen artifacts.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded institutions to catalog, report and return Native American ancestral remains and funerary objects. With exemptions for cases in which institutions can prove legal ownership, the 33-year-old law known as NAGPRA was updated in January with requirements that researchers obtain tribal or lineal descendants' consent…

Artist and cultural historian Ḥaa’yuups says the American Museum of Natural History still has a lot of work to do