![]() This talk, hosted by the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, presents a new book, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture," a personal journey that illuminates how repatriation has transformed both American museums and Native communities. ![]() Many still question how to balance the religious freedoms of Native Americans with the academic freedoms of American scientists, and the arguments continue about whether the emptying of museum shelves elevates human rights or destroys humanity’s common heritage. This controversy has exploded in recent years as hundreds of tribes have used a landmark federal law to recover their heritage from more than one thousand museums across America. Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?įive decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade against museums to reclaim their sacred objects and to rebury their kin. ![]()
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