WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Leger Fernandez Lead New Mexico Delegation in Reintroduction of Legislation to Permanently Protect Chaco Canyon New Mexico Delegation Moves to Protect Sacred Site for Years and Generations to Come Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasq  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, April 18 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * Mississippi State, Department of Public Safety sign forensics agreement STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State University and the Mississippi Department of Public Safety have formally agreed to work together on forensic investigations, including recovery of human remains, exhumations, surface scatter and burial recoveries, as well as identification of human skeletal remains. MSU President Mark E  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (TNSFR) -- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of human remains in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The remains were collected from various locations across Alaska and Oregon, including the Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, Nome Census Area, and the Chemawa (Salem) Indian School in Oregon. A total of 23 human remains ha  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Sequim, Washington, has issued a notice of intended disposition for human remains discovered on federal land. The remains, believed to be of Native American ancestry, were found on or about September 10, 2021, on a small island within the refuge, located in Jefferson County, Washington. A private citizen, while kayaking, came across a single e  more