Private museums could face NAGPRA scrutiny Museums and other institutions that accept stimulus funds could be required to repatriate Indigenous artifacts and remains Author: May 16, 2021 Eighteen medicine bags from the Portland Art Museum's Native American collection are headed back to Montana. The museum, based in Portland, Oregon, has also worked to return cultural and religious items belonging to the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. (Photo courtesy of Portland Art Museum) Museums and other institutions that accept stimulus funds could be required to repatriate Indigenous artifacts and remains Nanette Kelley Small museums and private institutions that accept federal CARES Act money or other stimulus funds could be forced to relinquish thousands of Indigenous items and ancestral remains now in their collections.