Penn, Temple, Mütter among U.S. institutions still holding the remains of Native Americans

Museum leaders pledged to repatriate the remains, as required under a 1990 federal law. Critics say some institutions have been too slow to act.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains? — NAGPRA Database

Use this database to find out where Native American remains were taken from and which institutions report still having them. Check on institutions near you.

ProPublica
Frustrated Native leaders probe CSU’s failure to return 700,000 sets of Native remains and artifacts, SSU holding the most

Sonoma State has the largest collection but has repatriated only 0.2% of its collection; President Mike Lee vows to make progress.

The Press Democrat

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I wrote about the topic of #postmortemviolence highlighting the post mortem violence that has been leveraged by the Academic Industrial complex, and cited the Morril Act in this post, because the agricultural aspect tied in to justifications for genocide that were used to build university Institutions that followed Boarding schools. I'll be writing more about my Grandfather's school to give analysis of fed ndn law and relationships in the future.

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