Wildlife Refuges and Museums Team Up for Bone Repatriation
Published Date: 5/16/2025
Notice
Summary
Several museums and wildlife refuges in South Carolina and beyond have finished checking their collections and found Native American human remains and burial items that belong to specific tribes. This means these items will be officially returned to the right Native communities, following important laws that protect Native heritage. No money changes hands, but the process honors history and culture with respect and care.
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NAGPRA repatriation to affiliated tribes
The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology; South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism; South Carolina State Museum; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Pinckney Island and Santee National Wildlife Refuges); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Laboratories of Archaeology; and Yale Peabody Museum completed inventories and determined cultural affiliation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Human remains and associated funerary objects identified in those inventories will be returned to the affiliated Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and no money will change hands.
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