The University of North Dakota, the latest U.S. college to acknowledge keeping Indigenous bones and artifacts, pledged to work with tribal leaders on returning them.
The University of North Dakota admitted it has over 250 boxes of ancestral remains and sacred items and is in the process of repatriating the items to their Indigenous homes.
The University of North Dakota s president apologized Wednesday for the school s possession of Native American artifacts and human remains that should have been returned to tribes decades ago under federal
<p>“The best way I can describe how we have found things is in the most inhumane way possible,” Laine Lyons said. “Just completely disregarded that these were once people.” </p>
First Alaska Native Elected to U.S. Congress
Mary Peltola, an Alaska Yup’ik Native, has won a special election to become the first Alaska Native and the first Alaskan woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
“I am honored, humbled, and absolutely speechless,” Peltola posted on.