Harvard holds remains of 7000 Native Americans and 19 likely enslaved people

Evidence

The Crimson noted that the decision came three weeks after the student-led newspaper published an article about a report that “Harvard holds the remains of 7,000 Native Americans and 19 individuals who were likely enslaved…held principally in the Peabody, [which] represent ‘the University’s engagement and complicity’ with slavery and colonialism.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1326

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the institutional-holding thread in the reparations argument; Harvard’s physical holdings of people’s bodies parallel Harvard’s legal holding of their images.