How to Report on the Repatriation of Native American Remains
Channel: ProPublica
Date: 2023-01-20

As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many institutions continue to hold them today — and in some cases resist their return despite the passage more than three decades ago of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. As part of The Repatriation Project, in partnership with NBC News, ProPublica is investigating how loopholes in the law have been exploited, and we’d like to help enable other journalists to do the same.  
 
In this hourlong webinar, ProPublica reporters demonstrate how student and local journalists can use our map and search tool as a starting point to see which institutions still have Native American remains, and offer tips on requesting records and sensitively reporting on this issue. 
 
Speakers: 
- Ash Ngu, ProPublica news app developer 
- Graham Brewer, NBC News national investigative reporter, Cherokee Nation citizen and Native American Journalists Association vice president 
- Logan Jaffe, ProPublica reporter
- Mary Hudetz, ProPublica reporter, Crow Tribe member and former Native American Journalists Association president

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