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Philadelphia museums hold hair strands from Native Americans

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.

NAGPRA update means Philly museums may have to return hair collections

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) updates are making Mutter, Penn, and Academy of Natural Science reassess their collections

The graves of our ancestors: A call for ethical repatriation and respect

A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making

Museum buries remains of Black people held on display

The remains were part of a collection from a scientist in the 1800s who falsely tried to prove that European brains were superior to other races.