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America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back.

• Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz, Ash Ngu and Graham Lee Brewer, ProPublica
• January 12, 2023