Tag: repatriation

  • Nation & World

    Peabody Museum charts progress on repatriation

    NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for consultation, return of all ancestors and associated funerary belongings.

    8 minutes
    Historic kayak in glass case in Alutiiq Museum.
  • Nation & World

    An end and a beginning

    Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony

    5 minutes
    Phil Deloria, Jane Pickering, Carrie Van Horn, Jaime Arsenault, Patricia Capone, Meredith Vasta, Stephanie Mach.
  • Nation & World

    A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects

    Gazette spoke with Philip Deloria, chair of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, to learn about the importance of following both the law and the spirit of the process, what the Peabody has already accomplished, and its future plans.

    11 minutes
    Peabody Museum window.
  • Nation & World

    Digging up the past

    Harvard archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann sat down with the Gazette to talk about his research, how his field has reckoned with the past, and how both influence his teaching.

    10 minutes
    Matt Liebmann