Harvard Peabody Museum Prepares to Repatriate Native American Treasures
Published Date: 4/30/2025
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Summary
Harvard’s Peabody Museum is getting ready to return special cultural items to Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian groups, following important laws that protect their heritage. This means these communities will soon get back objects that belong to their history and culture. The process is official and helps honor and respect these groups’ traditions without any cost to them.
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Peabody Museum Returning Tribal Items
Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University intends to return certain objects of cultural patrimony to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations named in this notice. The items being returned have a cultural affiliation with those tribes and organizations, and the repatriation is to occur without cost to those communities.
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