Thousands of Indigenous remains are currently in museums across the country and have not been returned to Native lands despite federal requirements.
WASHINGTON — Alaska Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan signed letters to five museums and universities urging them repatriate Indigenous remains in their collections., signed by a bipartisan group of 13 senators, call on the University of California Berkeley; Harvard University; Illinois State Museum; Indiana University; and the Ohio History Connection to comply with the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act.
She said she signed the letters “because it doesn’t make any difference if you are a significant museum or university. If you have ancestral remains that have been part of a, quote, ‘collection,’ they are ancestral remains that need to be returned and not necessarily kept as someone’s private collection.”
The letters say that when NAGPRA passed in 1990, lawmakers expected repatriation to take five years, but three decades later, “a daunting amount of work remains.” “We are pleased the senators are giving more attention to NAGPRA,” Ohio History Connection spokesman Neil Thompson said in its statement. “This work requires many resources and time commitments — for both institutions like ours and the federally recognized Tribes — to undertake repatriation on such a large scale, and we hope this conversation shines a light on that issue.
“Whenever we get a letter or call from a tribal representative that wants to consult, we make that a priority and try to move forward on the process as quickly as we can,” he said.
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