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EPISODE · Jan 19, 2024 · 14 MIN

After New Law, Field Museum Covers Some Native American Displays

from In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons

Museums like the Field are now federally required to get “free, prior and informed consent” from tribes or descendants before allowing display of cultural items or ancestral remains. The Field already does not display those remains, but it does hold one of the largest collections in the nation. Reset hears from Debra Yepa-Pappan, artist and former community engagement coordinator for the Native American exhibition renovation at the Field Museum, about the museum’s repatriation procedures and the changes following these rules.

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