US Politics
The Unfinished Business of Repatriation: Confronting America's Institutional Failure to Return Native Ancestors and Cultural Heritage
Museums and universities continue to hold hundreds of thousands of Native American human remains and cultural items despite federal repatriation laws designed to return them to tribes. This institutional hoarding of ancestral remains represents a profound moral failure that perpetuates colonial violence and denies Indigenous communities their fundamental right to dignity and cultural sovereignty.
