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  • Some museums slow to return Native American items to tribes

    Philip Marcelo, Associated Press|Aug 7, 2024

    NEW YORK — Tucked within the expansive Native American halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is a diminutive wooden doll that holds a sacred place among the tribes whose territories once included Manhattan. For more than six months now, the ceremonial Ohtas, or Doll Being, has been hidden from view after the museum and others nationally took dramatic steps to board up or paper over exhibits in response to new federal rules requiring institutions to return sacred or culturally significant items to tribes — or at lea...