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"Until this year, the University of Kentucky’s William S. Webb Museum of
Anthropology had never returned any of the more than 4,500 Native American
human remains in its collections.
That is about to change.
Weeks after
ProPublica published the “Repatriation Project,” the university
told federal officials that 138 ancestral remains in its collection could be
repatriated to three Shawnee tribes in Oklahoma and Missouri. The university
also announced it will commit nearly $900,000 over the next three years and
hire three more staff members to work on repatriations.
“This significant investment in staff and resources is a testament to the
university’s steadfast commitment to Native nations and completing the
sensitive process of repatriation with transparency, dignity and respect,”
Kristi Willet, a university spokesperson, said in an email to
ProPublica.
The University of Kentucky is among more than a dozen U.S. schools and museums
that have pledged to redouble their efforts to return the human remains and
belongings — in some cases numbering in the thousands — that were taken from
Native American gravesites. Institutions have also publicly acknowledged the
harm inflicted on tribal communities by continuing to keep ancestral remains
and cultural items, including after the 1990 Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act called for them to be returned to tribes.
The wave of responses follow the launch of
ProPublica’s series investigating
the failures of the federal law."
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