repatriation

The Episcopal Church in Wyoming returned more than 200 cultural and sacred items to the Northern Arapaho Tribe during a ceremony in Ethete on Indigenous People’s Day. They’d been in the church’s possession for almost 80 years.

The remains of an Eastern Shoshone boy have been returned to the Wind River Reservation, after more than a hundred years at the Carlisle Indian School cemetery in Pennsylvania.

Dallas Goldtooth, the acclaimed Indigenous activist, comedian and actor, just gave the keynote address at a Harvard conference exploring the university’s history of enslavement of Native peoples and its role in colonization. At times irreverent and hilarious, and at others unsparing and sincere, Goldtooth shared his thoughts on how accountability for institution’s like Harvard could be achieved.

A new database reveals that museums and universities across the U.S. still hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans, despite a federal law passed more than 30 years ago to help return their remains to tribes.

On a Saturday afternoon in January, Great Plains Hall in Arapahoe was packed with hundreds of people standing in line to bless themselves with cedar…