The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year

Nina Sanders claims she was hired as a consultant for the team to “pacify resistance” to the Chicago Blackhawks’ use of a Native American name and imagery

The US federal government’s manoeuvres to boost domestic lithium extraction are raising fears from tribal communities about archaeological and environmental impacts

The California universities “generally lack the policies, funding and staffing necessary to follow the law and repatriate their collections”, the report found.

Preston Jay Spotted Eagle has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of stealing government property from his former employer, the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana

The yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective has plans to create a community centre on the verdant site that focuses on artistic, cultural, and environmental initiatives

American institutions have catalogued 208,698 entries since the law went into effect in 1990—but less than half of those holdings have been repatriated

Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe

Chaco Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage site since 1987, was to be opened to drilling under a Trump administration plan

Durham, who controversially claimed Cherokee heritage, took a humorous and anti-monumental approach to sculpture

American artist who self-identified as Cherokee and advocated for Indigenous rights through his work, has passed away in Berlin

The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898

“Doses” of datura plant used in communal ceremonies have been found embedded in the ceiling of Pinwheel Cave

More than 25 years in the planning, First Americans Museum opens with new commissions and objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

The figures, carved by tribal members every winter and left in ceremonial shrines atop a mountain, have regularly been stolen and made their into museums and private collections throughout the US and Europe

Frank Buffalo Hyde says the imagery in the short film for the band's 1974 hit Come and Get Your Love released by Legacy Recordings this month is "too close to comfort" to his work

The "Come and Get Your Love" short film is the first release in a new Sony Legacy project that will tap contemporary artists to create videos for classic tunes

A new state bill expands federal rights for Indigenous groups to reclaim human remains, burial objects and other sacred artefacts from institutions

Leaders argue that Trump's plan for a rally there is an "unforgivable affront"

“Sacrilegious” act on Unesco-recognised site in Arizona which contains remains of Indigenous peoples

The latest commission for the Met's Great Hall continues the New York institution's upending of the colonial-settler narrative of American history

The work holds weight in New Mexico, which has the highest rate of violent crimes against Native American women in the US

Show at Minneapolis Institute of Art includes previously unknown triptychs by the Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully

Thousands of illegally removed items—including human bones—were discovered on collector’s farm