Harvard Museum Schedules Alabama Linked Items Repatriation
Published Date: 7/15/2026
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Summary
Harvard’s Peabody Museum has finished checking its collection and found some Native American funerary items linked to tribes in Alabama. Starting August 14, 2026, these items can be returned to the rightful Native groups. This means important cultural treasures will soon go back home, honoring Native heritage without any cost to tribes.
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Repatriation of Native funerary items
Harvard’s Peabody Museum has identified three associated funerary objects as culturally affiliated with several Indian Tribes and has determined they may be returned to those groups. Repatriation may occur on or after August 14, 2026. Written requests for repatriation can be sent to Jane Pickering at the Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, or by the email address listed in the notice; the notice names the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band of Choctaw Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, and allows any other tribe or lineal descendant who shows affiliation to request repatriation.
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