Reclaiming the Ancestors: Indigenous and Black Perspectives on Repatriation, Human Rights, and Justice from do pg Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 75 min 28 sec
✓ Published: 21-Aug-2020

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Over the last several centuries, Indigenous, Black, and other colonized peoples' remains have been turned into objects of study for archaeologists, anthropologists, and other scientists. This can be seen most clearly in the collection of their ancestors, often excavated from cemeteries and burial grounds and taken to museums around the world. Today, more than 100,000 Native American ancestral remains are still held in U.S. public museums alone, while an unknown number of remains of people of Afr