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An old, well-maintained brick building, known ast he Old Main Union Hall at Western Washington University at Bellingham, Washington. Surrounded by trees and a green lawn. by Flickr User Jasperdo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Western Washington University Hasn’t Returned Vast Majority of Indigenous Remains

by Hailey Hoffman and Julia Lerner March 3, 2023July 17, 2024

Three decades after a federal law required institutions to return “cultural items” and remains to their Indigenous nations, Western Washington University still possesses a vast majority of its collection. Western was among the more than 600 institutions nationwide in possession of more than 210,000 remains, according to the Repatriation Database released by ProPublica in January.