Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico
A federally recognized Indian tribe with headquarters in New Mexico
Institutions reported making the remains of more than 4,700 Native Americans available for return to the Pueblo of Zia.
The tribe was also eligible to claim more than 25,000 associated funerary objects.
Institutions continue to hold the remains of at least 5,500 Native Americans taken from counties known to be of interest to the tribe.*
Where Native American remains made available for return to the Pueblo of Zia were taken from
These 30 institutions made Native American remains available for return to the Pueblo of Zia.
Institution | Remains Made Available for Return To Tribe |
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U.S. Department of the Interior | 2,555 |
History Colorado | 513 |
University of Colorado Museum | 305 |
New Mexico State Univ. Museum + U.S. Dept. of Interior + U.S. Dept. of Agriculture + | 288 |
School for Advanced Research | 263 |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 198 |
Salmon Ruins Museum | 194 |
Fort Lewis College | 91 |
Denver Museum of Nature and Science | 75 |
Animas Museum | 61 |
U.S. Department of Agriculture | 61 |
Colorado College | 26 |
Utah State University, Eastern Prehistoric Museum | 16 |
Indiana University | 14 |
Albuquerque Museum | 6 |
Brigham Young University, Museum of Peoples and Cultures | 6 |
Michigan State University | 6 |
University of Denver, Museum of Anthropology | 6 |
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Phillips Academy | 5 |
University of Iowa, Office of the State Archaeologist | 5 |
Field Museum | 4 |
Colorado Bureau of Investigation | 3 |
Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | 2 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Anthropology | 2 |
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory | 2 |
Artesia Historical Museum and Art Center | 1 |
Central Michigan University, Museum of Cultural and Natural History | 1 |
Denver Art Museum | 1 |
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery | 1 |
Museum of Riverside | 1 |
Timeline of Native American remains made available for return to the Pueblo of Zia
These institutions have not made available for return the remains of at least 5,500 Native Americans that were taken from counties known to be of interest to the Pueblo of Zia.
Institution | Remains Not Made Available for Return That Were Taken From Counties of Interest to the Tribe |
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Harvard Univ. | 1,050 |
American Museum of Natural History | 1,025 |
Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | 666 |
Dept. of the Interior | 645 BIA (319) Utah State Office (197) New Mexico State Office (106) Navajo NM (23) |
Field Museum | 469 |
Dept. of Agriculture | 439 Santa Fe NF (258) Gila NF (80) Lincoln NF (45) Prescott NF (29) Carson NF (15) Cibola NF (8) Coconino NF (3) Apache-Sitgreaves NF (1) |
Univ. of Arizona | 323 |
Univ. of California, Berkeley | 136 |
Museum of Texas Tech Univ. | 123 |
Natural History Museum of Utah | 83 |
Utah Dept. of Natural Resources | 65 Edge of the Cedars and Goosenecks State Park (46) Utah Field House of Natural History State Park (19) |
Museum of Western Colorado | 53 |
Univ. of Michigan | 51 |
Beloit College | 46 |
Univ. of New Mexico | 46 |
Carlsbad Museum | 35 |
New Mexico Highlands Univ. | 35 |
Fort Lewis College | 30 |
Western Colorado Univ. | 29 |
Univ. of Texas, El Paso | 21 |
Dept. of Defense | 20 Fort Bliss (16) White Sands Missile Range (4) |
Univ. of Texas at Austin | 20 |
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale | 13 |
Eastern Arizona College Foundation | 12 |
New Mexico State Univ. Museum | 12 |
Ohio History Connection | 12 |
Carnegie Museum of Natural History | 10 |
Milwaukee Public Museum | 9 |
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum | 8 |
Univ. of Pennsylvania | 6 |
Illinois State Museum | 5 |
Museum of Northern Arizona | 5 |
Univ. of Kansas | 5 |
West Texas A and M Univ. | 5 |
Wichita State Univ. | 5 |
Dartmouth College | 4 |
Sul Ross State Univ. | 4 |
Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth | 4 |
Univ. of Nebraska State Museum | 4 |
Wisconsin Historical Society | 4 |
Hastings Museum | 3 |
Peabody Essex Museum | 3 |
Rocky Ford Historical Museum | 3 |
Univ. of Oklahoma | 3 |
Artesia Historical Museum and Art Center | 2 |
Cleveland Museum of Natural History | 2 |
Yale Univ. | 2 |
Brooklyn Museum | 1 |
Denver Museum of Nature and Science | 1 |
Elgin Public Museum | 1 |
Fort Concho NHL | 1 |
Grout Museum of History and Science | 1 |
Kansas City Museum | 1 |
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council | 1 |
Missouri Historical Society | 1 |
No Man's Land Historical Society | 1 |
Putnam Museum | 1 |
Rutgers Univ. | 1 |
Saint Martin's Univ. Waynick Museum | 1 |
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | 1 |
Texas Parks and Wildlife | 1 |
Texas State Univ. | 1 |
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
Univ. of Vermont | 1 |
Univ. of Wyoming | 1 |
Utah State Univ. | 1 |
Western New Mexico Univ. Museum | 1 |
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This tool presents a dataset maintained by the National Park Service containing all the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects that institutions have reported to the federal government under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The dataset includes information about the state and county where remains and objects were taken from, which institutions hold them and whether they have been made available for return to tribes.
The data is self-reported by institutions. The amount of unrepatriated Native American remains reported by institutions is a minimum estimate of individuals and institutions frequently adjust these numbers when they reinventory groups of remains. Some institutions that are subject to NAGPRA have also entirely failed to report the remains in their possession. As a result, the numbers provided are best taken as estimates. The actual number and geographic scope of what’s held by publicly funded institutions is larger than what is presently documented.
ProPublica supplemented this dataset with information about cultural affiliation and disposition to specific tribes by systematically parsing the text of Notices of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register. An additional dataset from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Tribal Directory Assessment Tool, was used for the section on remains not made available for return from counties that each tribe has indicated interest in to the federal government.
Institution location and tribal headquarters location information was provided by National NAGPRA. The location of some groups that are not federally recognized was provided through research by ProPublica.
Institutions that are part of a larger entity are grouped. (For example, the Mesa Verde National Park is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.)
Institutions that have not submitted information to the federal government are not listed. The Smithsonian Institution is not listed because its repatriation process falls under the National Museum of the American Indian Act and it is not required to publicly report its holdings with the same detail as institutions subject to NAGPRA.
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We use the word “tribes” to refer to all groups that institutions made Native American remains available to under NAGPRA. This includes tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities, Native Alaskan villages, Native Hawaiian organizations and non-federally recognized groups.
Data sources from Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National NAGPRA Program, the Federal Register, Department of Housing and Development, Tribal Directory Assessment Tool