Indigenous peoples
Abenaki artist and film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s remarkable career comes into focus at the Vancouver Art Gallery
A survey of the 90-year-old activist, artist and documentarian’s tells a parallel story about the shifting relationship between Canada and its First Nations peoples
Netherlands returns Indigenous remains to Caribbean island Sint Eustatius
The small Dutch Carribean island has recovered bone fragments and artefacts uncovered in a Dutch archaeological dig more than 30 years ago
Toronto museum returns objects to family of famous Cree leader
The Royal Ontario Museum returned an ornate saddlebag and ceramic pipe to descendants of Poundmaker
The Portland Museum of Art picks mass timber design for $100m 'expansion and unification' project
Lever, a sustainability-minded firm, won the international design competition for the museum's ambitious campus overhaul
Indigenous art communities emerged from the pandemic more resilient
Native American artists in the United States and First Nations artists in Canada found new ways to show their work and protect elders during the worst of Covid-19
Miami mega-collector Jorge Pérez: 'I hate to see where America is now'
Other leading cultural figures also respond to Florida's swing to the right
Canada’s museums urged to overhaul practices to empower Indigenous peoples
Country’s museums association says institutions must involve Indigenous people in “every element” of their work
Alleged Native American scalp seized from auction house specialised in Confederate and Nazi memorabilia
Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp
Anthropologist opposed to Indigenous repatriation sues university for alleged threats to her free speech
Professor Elizabeth Weiss has filed a lawsuit against San José State University claiming she was disciplined for expressing her view that repatriation favours religion over science
Preservationists urge restrictions on oil and gas exploitation near archaeological sites, parks and monuments in US Southwest
A new report highlights the risks posed by resource extraction near sites that are of sacred to Indigenous groups and have enormous archaeological significance
Leaked report reveals Harvard holds remains of nearly 7,000 Indigenous and 20 enslaved people
The unfinalised report is being developed by a steering committee formed last year to address repatriation concerns at the Ivy League university
Britain's Royal Albert Memorial Museum returns artefacts to Siksika First Nation
Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878
'A desecration': Australian Aboriginal elder fights plans for Indigenous art gallery in Outback, claiming it will disturb ancient spirits
Government plans to build $111m Alice Springs venue would violate numerous sacred sites, First Nations woman says
$19m renovation of American Museum of Natural History's Indigenous collection hall unveiled
American Museum of Natural History renovates its Pacific Northwest cultures gallery after 112 years
Sámi pavilion: the Nordic countries give their space to Indigenous artists from the European Arctic
The three exhibiting artists have dedicated themselves to “defending Sámi perspectives”
US revises law governing repatriation of Indigenous remains and burial objects
The effort, conducted in consultation with Native American tribes and nations, would enable greater enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Project chronicling Indigenous slavery receives $1.5m grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the three-year initiative to compile historical records and future projects related to the enslavement of Indigenous people in the US
German museums foundation returns ancestral human remains in Berlin collection to Hawaii
A group of skulls is being handed over to a Native Hawaiian group during a mission this month to receive dozens of items from German and Austrian museums
The Lenape diaspora, once on the brink of erasure, championed in New York exhibition
The show, the first-ever Lenape-curated exhibition profiling the tribes that inhabited the northeastern US coast, critiques the lack of scholarship and institutional focus on the Lenape people
Canadian museum closes Indigenous galleries to begin ‘the process of decolonisation’
The Royal British Columbia Museum will overhaul an entire floor of exhibits devoted to Indigenous and First Nations groups
'I want the UN to come and see what has happened here': Canadian Indian residential school survivor speaks out for victims in his art
Vancouver-based Cowichan/Syilx artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun creates new work in memory of dead Indigenous children
Haida artist Tamara Bell installs 215 shoes on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential school
The work has become a community shrine and gathering space for mourners after the remains of children as young as three years old were discovered last week using ground-penetrating radar
The Metropolitan Museum installs a plaque on its façade honouring the Lenape people, driven out of their New York City land
Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change
Museum extension allows Indigenous Sámi people to welcome home more than 2,000 artefacts held in Finland
An exhibition at the National Museum of Finland will celebrate the objects' repatriation to the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida in northern Lapland
Following social media backlash, festival organisers cancel Santiago Sierra's Aboriginal blood-soaked flag work
Many Indigenous cultural leaders commented that the work perpetuated, rather than critiqued, the violence of colonialism
Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples
The Spanish artist says the work recognises the devastation caused by empire
Royal British Columbia Museum CEO Jack Lohman resigns, after internal report finds a ‘dysfunctional and toxic workplace’
An investigation into management was prompted by the departure of the museum’s head of Indigenous collection, who complained of racism and discrimination
Boola Bardip: Perth’s revamped Western Australian Museum opens with new name and focus on Aboriginal heritage
The museum worked with around 60 Aboriginal language groups across the vast state to bring their perspectives into every gallery
Australia pledges millions towards repatriation of Aboriginal artefacts from overseas collections
Government extends pilot project to return objects to Indigenous peoples—including those held by private collectors
Nordic pavilion gets political for 2022 Venice Biennale as space is renamed after Indigenous Sámi people
"It is a symbolic reversal of colonial claims that have sought to erase Sámi land and culture," says a project statement