What Next - The Fight To Return Native Remains to Their Tribes
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🗓️ 6 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The “Native American Graves and Repatriation Act” passed more than 30 years ago, with the goal of returning human remains, which were taken from native burial sites, back to their tribes. But museums and universities still hold the remains of thousands of people—UC Berkeley alone has nearly 10,000.
Guest: Mary Hudetz, Propublica reporter focusing on tribal issues throughout the Southwest.
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| 0:27.2 | Eligibility criteria apply, new EE broadband customers. ProPublicas Mary Hewditz has spent the last few months thinking about what it means to be |
| 0:41.2 | a collector. |
| 0:43.1 | Because museums all over the country |
| 0:45.4 | have collections that mean a lot to her, |
| 0:48.4 | collections of objects and collections of people. |
| 0:53.0 | Museums took our ancestors, |
| 0:55.0 | they took many people's ancestors, |
| 0:58.0 | but they took the remains of Native Americans in vast, |
| 1:02.0 | you know, vast quantities. |
| 1:04.0 | Mary is a member of the Crow Tribe of Montana. |
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