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The Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to return two cultural items—a girl's dress and a tobacco bag—to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. These items are considered sacred and have significant cultural importance to the tribes. The museum received the items in 2019 from collectors who did not have documentation of their origin. If other groups or individuals can demonstrate a cultural connection to these items, they can request repatriation as well. The return of the items could happen on or after April 17, 2025.

The California State University, Sacramento has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and identified a cultural link with certain Native American tribes, as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Repatriation of these objects can begin on or after January 29, 2025, to tribes identified in the notice or to others who can prove a cultural connection. The objects in question were initially collected in the 1950s and given to the university, though some objects are currently missing. The notice is issued by the National Park Service but the determinations and responsibility rest with the university.