The Association on American Indian Affairs announced that registration is open for its 11th Annual Repatriation Conference, ...

Native American reparations are designed to remedy the U.S. government's historical treatment of indigenous tribes, ranging from monetary compensation to land redistribution and recognition of ...

Kathy Hochul is very sorry. The governor of New York recently went to visit the Seneca Nation’s territory in upstate New York to apologize for the fact that the state ran a boarding school for Native ...

The cultural items, which are currently held at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, may be returned starting Jan. 20 ...

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 ...

Tribal leaders press California universities to expedite return of human remains, cultural items to Native American tribes, following a third state audit criticizing slow progress. FEW YEARS. I THE ...

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 ...

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 ...

American archaeologists and Native Americans: a relationship under construction / Tamara L. Bray -- The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: background and legislative history / ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The second annual Native American Repatriation Summit hosted by the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations will open Wednesday at the Westin Hotel. Several laws have been enacted to facilitate ...