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John “The Immigrant” Chew, born in England in 1587, came to America and settled in Jamestown, Virginia with the first English colony there (established in 1607), and was recorded as

What percentage of Native American blood do you need to be in a tribe? How much American Indian blood is required to be considered Native American? Native %

University of Kansas repatriation program manager Thomas Torma confirmed in a statement to the Kansan that the current inventory of indigenous remains on University campus is 470 ancestors, over doubling

A New York museum that tribal representatives call one of the worst offenders of federal repatriation law has announced new policies for removing human remains from display cases and said it plans to double down on repatriation efforts for the more than 12,000 individuals it holds in its facility. On Oct. 12, Sean Decantur, the new president of the American Museum of Natural History, announced the policy changes to staff in an open letter. Immediate changes include preparing new storage for the remains in the museum’s collection, and removing human remains—such as human bones, ...

ProPublica found that Alabama institutions hold thousands of remains of Native Americans.