CHICAGO (WLS) -- Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was stolen from them over centuries: the remains of their ancestors and personal sacred items, now held in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Community) at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit. (photo/Levi ...

(AP) – When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years ...

In the dimly lit rooms of the National Archives, Joe Maxwell recalled digging through what he described as “the bowels” of the U.S. government as he and other student research assistants sifted ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws Tuesday intended to compel California’s public university systems to make progress in their review and return of Native American remains and artifacts. Decades-old ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- Tribal leaders are demanding the California State University system return thousands of Native American remains and cultural objects. During a hearing this week, state ...

Headstones are seen at the cemetery of the U.S. Army’s Carlisle Barracks on June 10, 2022, in Carlisle. When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to the notorious boarding ...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), signed in 1990, mandates this process. Mercyhurst University, among others, is actively working to repatriate remains and artifacts ...

Native American tribal leaders and lawmakers are urging California universities to accelerate the repatriation of human remains and cultural items that have been stored for decades, following a third ...