DENVER, Colorado, May 2 -- The History Colorado issued the following news release on May 1, 2025: * * * How History Colorado Assists Coloradans in Protecting the Places they Love DENVER -- May 1, 2025 -- In recognition of Colorado's Archeology & Historic Preservation Month, History Colorado is highlighting its many preservation programs that help Coloradans protect the places they love. From overseeing nominations to the State and National Registers of Historic Places, to reviewing federally   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSFR) -- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE) at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced its intention to repatriate two objects of cultural patrimony to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The items, a medicine rattle and a headdress, were originally acquired by Joseph Swaim from Chief Yellow Calf of the Northern Arapaho Tribe in 1931. These cultural items were later donated to the museum in 1957 by Swai  more

DALLAS, Texas, May 2 -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news: * * * Federal tribe uses ancient DNA to establish genetic link to ancestral sacred sites The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional interaction system and now a World Heritage site located in northwestern New Mexico. In a rare collaboration with geneticists and archaeologists, a federally recognized tribe in the United States has utili  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, May 1 -- The University of New Mexico issued the following news: * * * UNM researchers explore ancient architecture at Tse Yaa Kin By Megan Borders Tse Yaa Kin or Mummy Cave, is an alcove village revered by Indigenous people as an ancestral place. Tse Yaa Kin means "House Under the Rock" and is aptly named. The 1,700-year-old site is nestled in the center of a 1,000-foot vertical sandstone cliff at Canyon de Chelly National Monument on Navajo tribal trust lands in A  more