More than 116,000 Native American human remains still held in museums and collections

Evidence

Efforts to Protect and Repatriate Native American Cultural Items and Human Remains (U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO))

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: American Indian remains and artifacts lie buried across the United States; American soil across the United States conceals indigenous peoples’ remains and heritage; 870,000 Native American artifacts including nearly 110,000 human remains still held by institutions nationwide — More than 1,500 artifacts from ancestral remains to be returned to Oneida Indian Nation (+1 more)

Related

• American Indian remains and artifacts lie buried across the United States (similarity 0.94)
• 870,000 Native American artifacts including nearly 110,000 human remains still held by institutions nationwide (similarity 0.91)
• American soil across the United States conceals indigenous peoples’ remains and heritage (similarity 0.91)
• Two million Indigenous remains remain unreturned despite NAGPRA (similarity 0.86)