In January 2023, a ProPublica investigation exposed more than 600 institutions that still had Native American human remains in their collections and had not yet returned them to tribes.
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New federal regulations regarding the possession of Native American sacred and funerary objects went into effect in January. Tribes from all over the country have been receiving new inventories from museums and institutions that might have objects sacred to them.