NAGPRA is nothing new. Surprised it took Wesleyan this long. This law passed while I was taking a Human Osteology class in my Anthro program.
I didn’t realize that Wes had closed their museum in Judd Hall [1957]. Used to be a popular field trip site for local school kids.
Guess there were no *takers* for the compiled artifacts:
**Wesleyan’s Native American relics have been traced to tribes in Connecticut, Illinois and Tennessee, according to Doug Charles, chair of Wesleyan’s anthropology department. Charles told the Argus in 2010 that Wesleyan had provided tribes with summaries of Wesleyan’s holdings, but until then there had been no requests for repatriation.**