Museums throughout Connecticut are still holding Native American remains and burial objects in their possession, despite a federal law that bans the practice. The Native American Graves Protection ...

Though federal law requires federally funded museums to return Native American human remains and sacred objects to appropriate tribes and their descendants, five institutions in Connecticut have ...

Their burial sites had been looted by a white landowner who took them to Connecticut. The remains sat in a basement until state officials stepped in, hoping to right a wrong. As Native American ...

Their burial sites had been looted by a white landowner who took them to Connecticut. The remains sat in a basement until state officials stepped in, hoping to right a wrong. As Native American ...

Native American history is Connecticut history. Even the name Connecticut is an Algonquin word for “long tidal river,” but that history has not always been taught correctly.

As Connecticut and America emerged from colonial governments to independence, members of local Native American tribes saw the opposite happening to their governance, culture, language and traditions.

Now the Legislature has enacted them. By Jay Root For years, New York law permitted developers to build atop Native American burial sites without taking steps to preserve the ancient remains ...