Conversations on Native American Cultural Sovereignty
by Mitch Smith and Julie Boseman
The University of North Dakota, the latest U.S. college to acknowledge keeping Indigenous bones and artifacts, pledged to work with tribal leaders on returning them.
Source: Congress Told Colleges to Return Native Remains. What’s Taking So Long?
Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain during the 1890 massacre in South Dakota.
Source: Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee
Some Indigenous leaders meeting with the Pope this week are requesting that he return these pieces of their history
Source: Delegates view Indigenous artifacts at Vatican with mix of awe and anger
In 2017, the Monacan Indian Nation learned of plans to build a water pumping station on the site of their historic capital, including sacred burial grounds.
Source: Battle over Native American burial site in Virginia ends in tribal victory
More than 116,000 Native American ancestors are in limbo—their remains not yet laid to rest, but instead kept in storage at museums and institutions across the country.
Source: Tribes, Advocates Work to Fix a 30-year-old Loophole in Federal Law
The Autry and Gabrielino/Tongva Cultural Educators of the Los Angeles Basin Announce Memorandum of Understanding After years of collaboration, the Autry Museum of the American West and…
Source: He’uurore hyoo’eya horuura’ Carrying Knowledge into the Future
Nakia Williamson-Cloud, Director of the Nez Perce Tribe’s Cultural Resources Program.
Source: How the Nez Perce Tribe got a valuable collection of artifacts back against all odds
A new Wampum belt, the centrepiece of the ‘Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America’ touring exhibition, is preparing to return to the Wampanoag in Massachusetts USA.
Source: Wampum belt to return to Wampanoag Nation in Massachusetts | Mayflower
Source: https://hashilthsa.com/
Ha-Shilth-Sa is Canada’s oldest First Nations newspaper and is the newspaper of record of the Nuu-chah-nulth people. It has been published by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council since 1974. Ha-Shilth-Sa means “interesting news” in the Nuu-chah-nulth language.
Ha-Shilth-Sa reports on the activities and initiatives of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, and provides a First Nations’ perspective on news from Vancouver Island, around the province and across Canada.
Aleut family members will return the remains of one child to Saint Paul Island in Alaska, and Rosebud Sioux descendants will take nine children back to a tribal veteran’s cemetery in South Dakota or to private family plots.
Source: US Army to return remains of 10 Native American children to families | WITF