Park officials told The Denver Post last week that they have been conducting a thorough inventory of human remains and ...

A French auction house on Monday ignored an urgent request by the U.S. Embassy to delay an auction of dozens of sacred Hopi masks and put them on sale. EVE auctioneers say the sale of 32 artifacts is ...

PHOENIX - The federal government recently returned a collection of artifacts to anonymous members of Northern Arizona's Hopi Tribe. It involved a substantial expenditure of tax dollars, but the ...

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Many universities and museums in the U.S. have long held Native American burial artifacts, other sacred objects and even human remains. Most of these collections were acquired in the late 19th and ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Paris auction house is facing a court hearing aimed at halting the controversial sale of a trove of antique tribal masks revered as sacred ritual artifacts by a Native American ...

70 items scheduled to go up for auction next week in Paris are so sacred that Hopi people refuse to describe them. The auctioneers are calling them masks. Warren Olney former KCRW broadcaster ...