The Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College receives a $12,000 grant from the National Park Service.
The grant is part of $2.1 million in grants to nine Indian Tribes and 20 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
According to a news release Beloit College will repatriate the remains of five individuals and 26 burial objects removed from Ventura County, California.
Sometime between 1875 and 1889, the ancestral remains were removed by an amateur archeologist who later sold the collection to the Logan Museum.
Representatives from seven culturally affiliated Indian Tribes will travel from California to Wisconsin to pack and transport the ancestors and burial objects back to California.
