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SIU's Center for Archaeological Investigations assisting IDOT with cultural resource surveys
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (516+ words) Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Center for Archaeological Investigations has entered into a 10-year intergovernmental agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation to assist with initial archaeological survey work for possible road and bridge projects in the region. The pact provides…...
Berkeley Gives Back Corn, Peas, and Seeds to Tribes as Protected Items of "Cultural Patronage
11+ hour, 16+ min ago (448+ words) The Act requires the return of human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. "Cultural patrimony" is defined as "an object having ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself....
American Museum Of Natural History To Repatriate Native American Hair Clippings
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (375+ words) Artforum American Museum Of Natural History To Repatriate Native American Hair Clippings Decades after discovering samples of Native American hair within its collection, the American Museum of Natural History plans to add them to the list of items for repatriation…...
13, 000-Year-Old Bones On Santa Rosa Reignite Migration Debate
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (89+ words) Coverage of the find this week, including a July 7 writeup in the New York Post, is a reminder that the Arlington Springs remains are not a brand new discovery, but a long standing piece of evidence that keeps shaping the…...
Exploring Concordia's colonial past | Indigenous Directions
9+ hour, 35+ min ago (237+ words) Examining the history of the Grey Nuns and Concordia's founding institutions. Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its 94 Calls to Action in 2015, universities across Canada have been called to examine their histories and relationships with Indigenous peoples." At Concordia,…...
American Museum of Natural History to Repatriate 2, 700 Native American Hair Samples Under NAGPRA
9+ hour, 27+ min ago (246+ words) The American Museum of Natural History, home to a famous model whale and gem collection as well as a gleaming planetarium on the Upper West Side of New York, has made plans to repatriate hair samples taken from Native Americans…...
Early Americans relied on mammoths and giant mammals as their main food source, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
8+ hour, 47+ min ago (433+ words) Early people who spread across North and South America depended on giant mammals for almost all of their food, according to a new study published in Science Advances. The findings add new evidence to a long-running debate about how the…...
St. Joseph Museums awarded Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area Grant
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (158+ words) A $10, 000 grant awarded to the St. Joseph Museums, in partnership with the Black Archives Museum, will help develop a new project designed to explore the black history in St. Joseph. The signage will highlight significant people, events, and themes within…...
Latino Institute celebrates America's 250th anniversary with historical exhibit
12+ hour, 12+ min ago (832+ words) The Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute (JAULI) launched a traveling exhibit on July 4 that showcases influential Latino figures across 250 years of American history, including the founder of Goya Foods and the first Latina National Guard Black Hawk helicopter pilot." Titled "Celebrating…...
Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2, 700 Native Remains
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (1499+ words) On a winter day in Nebraska, two girls living at a boarding school about 230 miles from their home on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe reservation faced an anthropologist and a pair of scissors. The girls, Amy and Rose Cordier, were attending…...