Posted inNevada History

Museums and federal agencies stockpiled the remains of Indigenous people as their descendants protested. That’s slowly changing.

A 1990 federal law requires agencies and institutions to return remains of Indigenous people to their descendants. But as of this year, only about half of the more than 200,000 human remains stored at museums and other repositories in the U.S. and in Nevada have been repatriated.

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