The Alabama Department of Archives and History is beginning the process of returning the remains of Native Americans and their funerary objects held in its archives.The department also announced that it had removed Native American funerary objects from displays where the artefacts had sat for years, viewed by school groups and other visitors.The Associated Press news agency reported last month that 870,000 Native American artefacts – including nearly 110,000 human remains – are still in the possession of colleges, museums and other institutions across the United States, according to data maintained by the National Park Service.
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