Museums throughout Connecticut are still holding Native American remains and burial objects in their possession, despite a federal law that bans the practice.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which was passed in 1990, requires that institutions such as museums and universities return items belonging to Native American tribes to their respective places of origin.
But Mancini also shared that in most cases, the line of communication to even begin repatriation is nonexistent. “There’s no relationship between tribes and these institutions that is meaningful and durable… it’s one that’s been based on extraction,” he said. The Peabody Museum announced measures to hasten their own repatriation progress, and have returned some, such as Hawaiian ancestral remains given back in late 2022. Similarly, some museums in Connecticut and the rest of the northeast have completed their own process.
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