Today, @propublica is launching The Repatriation Project. Our first pieces look at the U.S. institutions/agencies that hold hundreds–in some cases thousands–of ancestral remains & belongings from Indigenous gravesites propublica.org/article/repatr…
The history behind how hundreds of institutions took from ancestral burial sites is a deeply sensitive and painful one for many Native people. Especially those who have worked to reclaim ancestors under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
@marymhudetz @propublica NAGPRA has been waived to build border walls though the lands of the Tohono O'odham and other indigenous peoples. @CBP invited the press to watch them dynamite one site in AZ known to have burials. theintercept.com/2020/02/27/bor…
@marymhudetz @Songstress28 @propublica ALL of it MUST be RETURNED.