WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma has announced its intention to repatriate a sacred ceremonial object connected to a known lineal descendant. The item, recorded as a fire stick used during a naming ceremony in Stroud, Oklahoma in 1963 at the Sac and Fox Nation, was donated to the museum in 2014 by anthropologist Carol Rachlin, who had worked closely with the Tribe during that period. The museum reports that the fire stick meets the criteria of a sacred object   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (TNSLrpt) -- The journal article titled 'Examining the Impact of Permitless Firearm Legislation and COVID 19 on Crime and Arrests in Three Urban Cities' was issued by the Journal of Urban Health and authored by Nicholas Corsaro, Robin S. Engel, Jennifer M. Cherkauskas and Ryan T. Motz. The article appears in J Urban Health (2025) 102:1036-1046 and was published online on November 10, 2025. Study scope and timing The authors examined seven years of police data, from January 1  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and funerary objects and identified cultural affiliation linking the materials to numerous Tribal Nations. The notice states that the remains of at least five individuals, along with two associated projectile points, were recovered from the Schacht Site in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, before entering University holdings in 1968. The materials were excavated   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Archaeology, Nashville, has announced plans to repatriate culturally significant objects connected to Native American burial traditions in Davidson County, according to a notice issued under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The inventory lists thirteen funerary items considered unassociated due to the absence of human remains; however, archaeological context and cultura  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology, Nashville, has documented ancestral remains and funerary objects from Davidson County and confirmed cultural affiliation to Tribal Nations across the Southeast, according to a Notice of Inventory Completion released through the National Park Service. The inventory identifies the remains of at least 23 Native American individuals recovered from Site 40DV53, along with 360 associated bu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology, Nashville, has completed a large-scale inventory of Native American ancestral remains and burial objects and confirmed cultural affiliation linking them to eight Tribal Nations, according to a Notice of Inventory Completion released by the National Park Service. The notice documents the remains of at least 238 individuals and 449 associated funerary objects, recovered from multiple ar  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (TNSFR) -- The West Virginia Department of Tourism, Charleston, has completed an inventory review confirming cultural affiliation of ancestral remains to Tribal Nations of Florida and Oklahoma. The review accounts for one Native American individual whose remains were originally removed from a small mound site near Ocala in Marion County, Florida. According to documented acquisition history, geologist Noel Moebs of Bruceton, Pennsylvania obtained the remains before 1953, repo  more