The Field Museum in Chicago plans to return 54 cultural items to Native American tribes under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). These items include 19 sacred objects and 35 objects of cultural importance originally taken from tribes in California in 1901. The Field Museum will begin repatriating the items on February 18, 2025, and has identified the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California as culturally affiliated with these items. Requests for repatriation can be made by tribes not mentioned in the notice, and efforts will be made to resolve any competing claims for these artifacts.
Simple Explanation
The Field Museum in Chicago is giving back some special items to Native American tribes because they are very important to their culture. They will start doing this on February 18, 2025, and have already found one tribe, the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians in California, that these items belong to.