As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations ...

Anthropological study of the remains indicates they predate the fort, from before 1840, and are likely tribal in origin, an Army Corps spokesman said.

The moratorium, which went into effect in October 2023, prohibits professors from teaching and researching using Native ...

The Ohio History Connection has one of the nation’s largest collections of Indigenous remains. The nonprofit and tribes are ...

A human scalp seized in 2022 from Poulin Antiques and Auctions Inc. in Fairfield was repatriated March 10 to the Mescalero Apache Tribe in New Mexico, federal officials said. The scalp, which had been ...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), passed by Congress in 1990, mandates that federally funded institutions repatriate remains and associated burial objects to ...

The Tread of Pioneers Museum is committed to collaborating with and authentically representing Native American communities in its activities, events, exhibits, and educational programs. To advance ...

They soon learned that the institution was notorious for refusing to return Indigenous items, in open violation of NAGPRA. “The problem with NAGPRA was that it had no teeth,” said Gonzalez. The ...

Native American tribes and museums are on a four-year count down That's the time left to decide how to repatriate Native American human remains and other cultural items to the appropriate parties ...

WashU students have advocated for the repatriation of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection and the renouncement ...