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The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is closing two of its Native American displays.
Other American museums are following suit, with the Field Museum in Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art covering certain display cases.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University recently announced that it would be removing all Native American funerary belongings from its exhibitions.
All this chaos is the result of regulatory changes to the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Regulations like NAGPRA tie historians and anthropologists up in needless red tape.
It deprives everyone of the opportunity to learn about the shared history of the US .
We should be working to excavate and understand the past, not trying to re-bury it.
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