The New York Times

Harvard Museum Will Return Hundreds of Native American Hair Samples

The Peabody Museum apologized for its “complicity in the objectification of Native peoples” by holding hair samples taken from Indigenous children at government boarding schools in the 1930s. By ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Harvard Museum Pledges to Return Hair Samples of 700 Native American Children

Harvard's Peabody Museum received the collection of 700 Native American hair samples as a donation in 1935. Joseph Sohm For over 80 years, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum has been in possession of ...
Seattle Times

Harvard museum will return hundreds of Native American hair samples

The Peabody Museum at Harvard University said Thursday that it would return a collection of hair samples that were taken in the early 1930s from hundreds of Native American children who were forced to ...