repatriation

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• SOURCE: MinnPost
  4/25/2023
  

  Why is University of Minnesota Slow to Meet Obligations to Repatriate Native Artifacts?

  Many institutions have been able to avoid repatriating artifacts because of the stringency of requirements that individual tribes document an affiliation with the objects in question, as well as a lack of transparency about holdings. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/15/2022
  

  Benin Bronzes Have Final German Exhibition Before Repatriation

  "'The recognition of the colonial injustices and the subsequent return of the items “will continue to define our work in the future,' Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation."

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  5/16/2022
  

  Harvard Peabody Museum Returns Sacred Scrolls to White Earth Tribe

  Professor Philip Deloria praised the repatriation of the artifacts as a "rebalancing" of accounts between the tribe and the university. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation

  "The institution that held about 12,000 of the items was the Museum of the Bible, a four-year-old Washington museum founded and funded by the Christian evangelical family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain."

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• SOURCE: ARTNews
  7/9/2021
  

  German Museum Repatriates Lakota Chief’s Shirt, Citing ‘Moral and Ethical Reasons’

  Duane Hollow Horn Bear had visited the Weltkulturen Museum in 2019 and submitted a request for the shirt’s return that included a historic portrait photograph, dated to 1900, by John Alvin Anderson.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-4-18
  

  For the U.S., a frustrating history of recovering human remains in North Korea

  The up-and-down nature of past efforts suggests the process could be fraught with pitfalls, including a mixed record of cooperation from the North Koreans.