Congress passed a law in 1990 mandating the return of all Native American items that federally funded institutions took ...

PHOENIX — A Paris judge will decide Thursday whether to block the sale of 70 “sacred objects” of Hopi origin by a French auction house. The sacred objects date back to the 1930s. At least one of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was stolen from them over centuries: the remains of their ancestors and personal sacred items, now held in ...

I cover Indian Country as a reporter for NPR member station KJZZ from a base in Flagstaff, which is on the edge of the country's largest reservation. So, I've educated myself about Navajo and Hopi ...

NEW YORK -- Ray Halbritter, representative for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, has to travel over 200 miles to visit one of his ancestors, who is held deep in the collections of the American ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context, ...

Part 1. Exhibiting Hindu and Sikh Religious Objects in Museums. 1. What do Indian images really want? : a biographical approach / Richard H. Davis ; 2. Under the gaze of Kali : exhibitionism in the ...

ETHETE — In the mid-1980s, Merle Haas got a call. Representatives of the Episcopal Church of Wyoming wanted her to meet them in Laramie. Haas, who is Northern Arapaho, drove to St. Matthew’s Cathedral ...

Cultural leaders across the Pacific and northern Australia have demanded an end to tribal auctions, after a Perth auctioneer and vendor raked in $8000 for a war club sacred to the Fijian islands.

Watching the events surrounding the selection of the new Pope reminded me of two important sociological concepts: the sacred and the profane. The sacred is set aside, forbidden, and eternal, while the ...