2025-17631Notice

Yale Art Gallery to Repatriate Sacred Item to Native Groups

Published Date: 9/12/2025

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Summary

Yale University Art Gallery is planning to return a special cultural item to Native American tribes or Native Hawaiian groups, following important laws that protect their heritage. This means the museum is giving back an unassociated funerary object that belongs to these communities. The process respects their history and culture, with no money involved, just a meaningful reunion.

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Museum to Return Funerary Object

Yale University Art Gallery intends to return an unassociated funerary object to Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The item has a cultural affiliation with those tribes or organizations, and the repatriation involves no payment—it's a return of the object to the affiliated communities.

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