As the U.S. pushed #Native Americans from their lands for westward expansion, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of #Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. 30 years since passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, @ProPublica investigates the #failure of federally funded universities and museums to expeditiously return human remains.
“We never ceded or relinquished our dead. They were stolen."
https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains