insider.si.edu

Repatriation reader : who owns American Indian remains? / edited by Devon A. Mihesuah

Introduction / Devon A. Mihesuah -- The representations of Indian bodies in nineteenth-century American anthropology / Robert E. Bieder -- Digging for identity: reflections on the cultural background ...
The Advocate

Pulled from Louisiana graves, hundreds of Native American remains still not returned to tribes

In 1968, a Louisiana prison guard unearthed over 100 skeletons and sacred objects at a grave site in West Feliciana Parish, exposing them to the light for the first time in centuries. He kept the ...
WESA

Wisconsin tribe reburies 67 ancestors, but many Native American remains await repatriation

The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin this month reburied the remains of 67 ancestors that were excavated in the 1960s and held for decades by the Milwaukee Public Museum. It’s the latest ...
Albuquerque Journal

OPINION: A turning point for Native American repatriation

Earlier this month, the 35th anniversary of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) passed quietly. This landmark legislation reflected a national consensus to stop the ...
The Pantagraph

Native American history, repatriation measures advance in Illinois House

Native American history House Bill 1633, passed on a 75-32 vote, would require public elementary and high schools to include Native American history in their social studies curriculum, beginning with ...