The Field Museum decides to answer ...

The Field Museum decides to answer a 26-foot totem pole to descendants of its original Native American holders in Cape Fox, Alaska. The staff was taken without permission during a 1899 expedition. The museum agreed to give the staff back to the Tlingit tribe in compliance with the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which requires that federally storeed institutions return Native American artifacts. Richard Shields, a Tlingit clan leader, numbers the Tribune: "It's like when common of your family members has been gone for a prolonged long time, and he has finally decided to take rise home."

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