It’s impossible to fully right the wrongs of the past, but it’s crucial to understand the hurt we’ve caused and to make amends. Dr. David Hyde has been working closely with several native tribes to return the remains of native people to their rightful resting place. The bones, estimated to be around a thousand years old, were originally plundered by illegal collectors in the early 20th century. They were donated to Western in the 1940s, where they’ve been sitting in boxes for the past 80 years. Soon, they will be repatriated to a place as near as possible to their original homelands. Learn why this is an important story, and why returning human remains to their rightful resting place is more complicated, and more important, than you might think.
