WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology (TDEC-DOA) has completed a federal inventory identifying a cultural affiliation between an ancestral individual and the Quapaw Nation. The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service published the notice of this completion as required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The completed inventory identifies the human remains of at least one individual more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology (TDEC-DOA) intends to return a collection of ancestral artifacts to the Quapaw Nation. This decision follows the mandates of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act regarding the return of cultural items to affiliated Indian Tribes. The items consist of one lot of Mississippian period ceramic vessels, including jars, bowls, and plates. These artifacts are classified more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has completed an inventory of human remains, establishing a cultural affiliation between the items and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The inventory identifies four Native American individuals, including an adult male recorded as a Muscogee warrior from Alabama and another identified as Athlaha-Ficksa, a Muscogee Chief who died in 1837. The remains also include  more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (TNSFR) -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology intends to repatriate a sacred carved wooden figure to Hui Iwi Kuamo'o. The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued the notice following requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act regarding the item currently held in the museum's collection. The sacred object is a ki'i akua, or god image, believed to depict Chief Kuali'i. Workers unearthed the more PR