2024 Religious and Cultural Rights (Religious Freedom, Repatriation, Peyote, NAGPRA, Graduation) News Stories
Honoring heritage in uniform: Native American soldier granted religious accommodation to grow hair, embrace Lakota identity (Native News Online) 11/6/2024
Religious groups support Apache Stronghold’s opposition to Oak Flat copper mine (ICT) 10/15/2024
National Park Service awards $3 million to aid return of Native American remains, sacred objects (Native News Online) 8/9/2024
Mississippi returns Indigenous remains, artifacts to Chickasaws (Mississippi Today) 8/8/2024
Oversight hearing sheds light on university compliance with Native American repatriation laws (Native News Online) 8/7/2024
Native American exhibits at major museums closed months ago, but Tribes are still waiting to get artifacts back (PBS) 7/29/2024
They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities (The Guardian) 6/24/2024
Community, healing and justice: Indigenous journalists share what reporting on repatriation meant to them (Cronkite News) 6/10/2024
Native students protest exclusion of traditional song from Minnesota graduation ceremony (Native News Online) 5/20/2024
Navajo leaders outraged after an Indigenous student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation (AZ Mirror) 5/17/2024
The Southern Ute Tribe repatriates sacred objects from cultural institutions around the country (Aspen Public Radio) 5/17/2024
Healing from the dark period of religious and cultural persecution – Native American Rights Fund (Hecho en California) 5/13/2024
Bill adding more Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list heads to governor (KTOO Alaska Public Radio) 5/13/2024
Tips for wearing Native regalia at graduation (ICT) 5/7/2024
Native law group says graduates planning to wear Tribal regalia should review school policies (KNPR Nevada Public Radio) 4/25/2024
Podcast: As high school and college students plan for their graduations, some Native students could face resistance for wanting to wear Tribal regalia with their caps and gowns (National Native News) 4/19/2024
Why Indigenous artifacts should be returned to Indigenous communities (Time) 4/10/2024
Oklahoma museums feel impact of new NAGPRA rules (ICT) 4/10/2024
Tlingit and Haida went to Denver to reclaim their cultural objects. They left empty-handed — and continue to fight. (Anchorage Daily News) 4/7/2024
A U.S. senator is shaming universities into returning Native American human remains (Huffington Post) 4/1/2024
New NAGPRA rules: ‘We have an obligation to change’ (ICT) 3/20/2024
New NAGPRA rules: 'a state of Gozhoo' (ICT) 3/19/2024
New NAGPRA rules: A sea change in federal regulations (ICT) 3/18/2024
Indigenous student wins fight to wear eagle feather at Tennessee graduation (People's World) 3/15/2024
Smithsonian moves towards ‘informed consent’ principle for human remains (Museums Association) 3/12/2024
Native American artifacts found on Lehigh land to be returned to Delaware Nation (Native News Online) 3/2/2024
ACLU Of Texas study reveals majority of Texas public schools still have discriminatory dress codes (Texas Metro News) 2/1/2024
ACLU sues Rhode Island prison forbidding Native prisoner from wearing Apache headband (Native News Online) 1/29/2024
Alaska museum is building a private database to repatriate Kodiak Alutiiq ancestors (Native News Online) 1/24/2024
Field Museum, others cover Native American displays to comply with new regulations (Native News Online) 1/23/2024
After centuries of erasure, Arizona Tribes fight to preserve culture through language (Tuscon Sentinel) 1/15/2024
Human remains held by U's medical school raise questions around Tribal consultation (Minnesota Public Radio) 1/14/2024
Indigenous People press on to Indigenize museums (Underscore) 1/9/2024
Wounded Knee descendants decide not to burn artifacts (ICT) 1/9/2024
Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House meeting (CNN) 1/6/2024
Indigenous Northeast Oklahoma student prohibited from wearing beaded mortarboard at graduation (CNHI News) 1/4/2024
Inside Montana State Prison: Tribal religious and cultural freedom (KTVH NBC Montana) 1/3/2024
