Native Americans charge the university is trying to get around a law requiring the return of American Indian artifacts. “(Harvard) is very unpopular with natives from coast to coast right now,” said Ramona Peters of the Wampanoag tribe in Gay Head. “It appears they view our ancestors as their property.” – Boston Herald
- RESPONSIBLE RETURN: Some American museums are struggling with complying with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which mandates the return of native artifacts to Indian tribes. – Boston Herald
- NATIVE AMERICAN FRUSTRATION: “So you go into the museum as the authority figure. And guess who the authorities are on Indians? White people. That’s the hypocrisy. You go in possessing all these qualities and the non-Indian doesn’t recognize you because you don’t have a paper on the wall that says Ph.D. on it.” – Boston Herald