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MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2002

The Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Massachusetts recently repatriated nearly 200 sets of human remains to Iroquois Confederacy tribes in New York.

Along with almost 3,000 artifacts, most of the remains had been dug up at various sites. Some of the ancestors and items items were reburied at an undisclosed site in Seneca Nation territory while others are being repatriated to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Oneida Nation.

Get the Story:
Excavated Indian remains reburied (AP 1/6)
Iroquois nations bury recovered remains (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 1/5)

Relevant Links:
Peabody Museum - http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/default.html