Harvard Unearths Duty to Return Native Ancestors from Museum Vaults
Published Date: 5/8/2025
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The Peabody Museum at Harvard has finished checking its collection of Native American and Native Hawaiian human remains and related items. They found a clear connection between these remains and specific tribes and organizations. This means the museum is ready to return these items to the rightful communities, following important laws, with no costs or delays mentioned.
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Museum to Repatriate Native Remains
If you are a member of an Indian Tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University completed an inventory and determined a cultural affiliation between certain human remains and funerary objects and those communities. Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum is prepared to return those remains and associated objects to the affiliated tribes and organizations.
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