Harvard's Peabody museum returns Native American burial remains
John C.P. Goldberg, interim dean of the Harvard Law School, described how the law school has had a 'special relationship' with the Oneida Indian Nation for decades. He added that the school's 'Oneida professors have ensured that cutting-edge research on American Indian law is taking place here.'
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'We are so grateful to the Oneida Indian Nation and to Representative Ray Halbritter for making this possible,' he said in a statement.
The returns come as the Peabody and other cultural institutions have sought to increase returns from their collections of human remains and associated funerary objects to Native American tribes.
The change has been driven in part by
The current returns come three years after Oneida tribal representatives contacted Harvard about culturally affiliated objects in the school's collections. Tribal representatives said the Oneida Nation would continue other work with Harvard to identify other burial remains and culturally relevant objects within the school's collections for repatriation.
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The Oneida Nation has prioritized repatriations, and in recent years has successfully sought returns from a variety of New York-based institutions, including the American Museum of Natural History, Cornell University, and Colgate University, among others.
Tribal representatives said that successful working relationships with museums such as the Peabody play a critical role 'affirming the sovereignty and dignity of Native people.'
'From ensuring that one day no Native American ancestors are insensitively displayed or forgotten in storage rooms to prioritizing our voices in discourses of history and culture,' said Halbritter, 'this is a unique opportunity to forge a better future as partners.'
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