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Senators Push Universities, Museums to “Expeditiously Return” Native Ancestors

Apr 24, 2023 09:17AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: Sens. Lisa Murkowski (left) and Brian Schatz (right) at an Indian Affairs Committee oversight hearing on NAGPRA on Feb. 2, 2022. (Photo: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs).  

By BRIAN EDWARDS - Native News Online - April 24, 2023


A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. Senators is asking universities and museums with large collections of Native American human remains why they’ve failed to repatriate them to tribes—more than 30 years after a federal law was passed that compelled them to do so.  


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