Repatriation
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Choice: American Indian Culture
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Repatriation is the process by which tribes are regaining their ancestors’ human remains and sacred objects that are housed in non-Indian museums and other institutions
In ordinary usage, repatriation generally refers to the return of individuals, either of their own volition or by coercion (deportation), to their countries of origin. Within the context of modern Indian-white relations, however, the term denotes that process through which cultural, religious, and funerary objects and human remains are restored to their original tribal...
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