Officials from the Peabody Museum, which opened on March 26, said they remain committed to “culturally responsive collection stewardship” in light of new federal regulations that aim to strengthen the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
In light of the recent Maui wildfires, student leaders from the Indigenous Peoples of Oceania and other cultural affinity groups spearheaded fundraising efforts, including a benefit concert to showcase Pasifika performing arts.
A group of three students led by Professor Hi’ilei Hobart trained for a week and a half to repatriate ancestral remains from the Yale Peabody Collection. The students called on Yale to take a more swift and active approach to repatriating Native remains.