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Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding
This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Sixteen months had passed since Hurricane Harvey tore through the Texas coast in August 2017, killing more than 80 people and flattening entire neighborhoods.
The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was adapted from David Epstein’s Substack newsletter, “Range Widely,” and references the story “The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene” that he wrote for ProPublica in 2016.
Floods, flash floods, rainfall, climate change
TEXAS FLOODSTexas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. Published 16 July 2025 After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas. In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story.
'It'll get us again': Trove of recordings shows locals warned of deadly TX flood
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decades-long effort by the Kerr County Historical Commission to document the community’s history, Secor had a lot to say about the area’s floods. “It always seems to happen at night too,” Secor said of local floods he and his family had experienced.
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.
Tesla's Robotaxi fare increases from $4.20 to that other number Elon Musk likes Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have the sense of humor of South Park's Terrance and Phillip, but one has to acknowledge his consistency. After expanding the Robotaxi service area in Austin to an area that looks like a giant penis, Tesla also increased the ride fare. Originally, no matter the distance of the …
The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
About the Math Our article is focused on pyrolysis because it’s the most popular form of chemical recycling. Other types of chemical recycling technologies have their own strengths and weaknesses. There are different variations of pyrolysis, and steam crackers produce a range of ethylene and propylene yields. Companies are secretive about their operations.
Atlanta Movie Studio Executive Apologizes After Sending Racist, Antisemitic Texts
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
The Family Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Black Community
In the second half of the 20th century, the establishment and expansion of public universities across Virginia uprooted Black families, hindering their efforts to accumulate wealth in the most American way — homeownership. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. James and Barbara Johnson flip through a book of their memories.
Why Museum of Us and History Colorado Didn’t Have to Scramble to Comply With New Repatriation Rules
America’s institutions hold human remains and sacred items taken from the graves of tens of thousands of Native Americans. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
American Museum of Natural History to Close Native American Exhibits to Comply With New Federal Regulations
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America’s institutions maintain control of more than a hundred thousand remains of Native Americans as well as sacred items. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
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Intersection 1: Shared authority and engagement journalism
Hi and happy new year. First, thank you all for subscribing and following this work. I had no idea how interested people would be in reading about the intersections of public history and journalism, and I’m excited about the mix of people and professions who have decided to tune in.
The Remains of Thousands of Native Americans Were Returned to Tribes This Year
Following decades of Indigenous activism and the 2023 publication of ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project,” federal officials have seen more activity leading to the return of ancestral remains to tribal nations than any other year since 1990. American museums and universities repatriated more ancestral remains and sacred objects to tribal nations this year than at any point in the past three decades, transferring ownership of an estimated 18,800 Native American ancestors, institutions reported.
The Remains of Thousands of Native Americans Were Returned to Tribes This Year
America’s institutions maintain control of more than a hundred thousand remains of Native Americans as well as sacred items. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
Local news rediscovers local history
In 2024, the heart of local news strategy boils down to the question: Do you care about place, or not? To what I believe are the most exciting and promising new local journalism organizations, the answer to that question is, deeply, yes. That calls for a very different, and I’d argue more challenging, way of doing journalism than nationally-focused organizations with interests in “local.” Authentically local journalism outlets already know this.
Animating the “Infinite Nightmare” of Night Raids in Afghanistan
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Parental Alienation: A Disputed Theory With Big Implications
Psychiatry’s diagnostic bodies have not accepted parental alienation as a mental health disorder. But it’s being leveraged in family courtrooms. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. ProPublica has been reporting on family courts’ handling of custody disputes that involve allegations of child or domestic abuse.
A new Illinois law shifts repatriation and reburial power to tribal nations
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday sweeping reforms that for the first time will give tribal nations — not state agencies, universities or museums — final say over how and when the remains of their ancestors and sacred items are returned to them.
A New Illinois Law Shifts Repatriation and Reburial Power to Tribal Nations
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday sweeping reforms that for the first time will give tribal nations — not state agencies, universities or museums — final say over how and when the remains of their ancestors and sacred items are returned to them.
A New Illinois Law Shifts Repatriation and Reburial Power to Tribal Nations
by Logan Jaffe ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday sweeping reforms that for the first time will give tribal nations — not state agencies, universities or museums — final say over how and when the remains of their ancestors and sacred items are returned to them.
A New Illinois Law Shifts Repatriation and Reburial Power to Tribal Nations
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America’s institutions maintain control of more than a hundred thousand remains of Native Americans as well as sacred items. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Illinois Gov.
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Historians Condemn Philly Museum for Hosting Right-Wing Moms for Liberty Event
Scholarly groups and historians’ associations are speaking out against the Museum of the American Revolution (MAR), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for agreeing to rent space this weekend to the far right organization Moms for Liberty. Moms for Liberty — which is recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group — pushes book bans in schools and libraries on titles that have LGBTQ themes or that teach the history of slavery and racism in the United States.
America’s biggest museums fail to return Native American human remains
Skip to content or footer Subscribe Sign in Hello {name} This story was originally published by ProPublica. Read the full series online. As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items.
Legislation calls for reburial of Native Americans whose remains are held by Illinois museums
Posted4/17/2023 5:30 AM This story was originally published by ProPublica. For more than 30 years, tribal nations have been asking the state of Illinois and its state-run institutions to return the remains of their ancestors for reburial within the state. For just as long, Illinois has made that nearly impossible. But now, legislation moving through the General Assembly would finally pave the way for the remains of thousands of Native Americans to be repatriated.
Repatriation Reform Bill Unanimously Passes Illinois House Of Representatives
Above Photo: The Illinois State Museum has returned only 2% of the Native American remains it holds to the tribal nations who could claim them. Mike Linksvayer/Wikipedia Commons. The Illinois House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would create a protected cemetery for repatriated Native American remains. And establish tribal oversight for future projects.
Sweeping Repatriation Reform Bill Unanimously Passes Illinois House of Representatives
by Logan Jaffe ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains. Sign up for ProPublica’s Repatriation Project newsletter to get updates as they publish and learn more about our reporting. For more than 30 years, tribal nations have been asking the state of Illinois and its state-run institutions to return the remains of their ancestors for reburial within the state.
Sweeping Repatriation Reform Bill Unanimously Passes Illinois House of Representatives
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains. Sign up for ProPublica’s Repatriation Project newsletter to get updates as they publish and learn more about our reporting. For more than 30 years, tribal nations have been asking the state of Illinois and its state-run institutions to return the remains of their ancestors for reburial within the state.
Dozens of Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. Few Have Funded the Effort.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains. Sign up for ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project” newsletter to get updates as they publish and learn more about our reporting. Until this year, the University of Kentucky’s William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology had never returned any of the more than 4,500 Native American human remains in its collections. That is about to change.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Remains
(ProPublica) As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return despite the 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. “We never ceded or relinquished our dead.
The Illinois museum built on Native American burial mounds
This story was originally published by ProPublica . Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what’s under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he’s interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ancestors. For more than 800 years, they laid undisturbed, carefully buried inside a mound of earth overlooking a quiet valley and a slow river.
The Illinois museum built on Native American burial mounds
Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what's under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he's interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ancestors. For more than 800 years, they laid undisturbed, carefully buried inside a mound of earth overlooking a quiet valley and a slow river. Then in the 1920s, a chiropractor named Don Dickson dug open the mound, eventually exposing the remains of hundreds of Native Americans.
The museum built on Native American burial mounds
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains. Sign up for ProPublica's Repatriation Project newsletter to get updates as they publish and learn more about our reporting. Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what's under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he's interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ancestors.
The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds
Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what’s under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he’s interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ancestors. For more than 800 years, they laid undisturbed, carefully buried inside a mound of earth overlooking a quiet valley and a slow river. Then in the 1920s, a chiropractor named Don Dickson dug open the mound, eventually exposing the remains of hundreds of Native Americans.
How A Tourist Attraction Displaying The Open Graves Of Native Americans Became A State-Run Museum
This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. When William Dickson moved to Fulton County, Illinois, from Kentucky in 1833, he purchased a beautiful piece of land overlooking the confluence of the Spoon and Illinois rivers. The federal Indian Removal Act of 1830 had exiled most Native American tribes from the state under the threat of genocide, and Illinois would soon have no tribally held land.
How a Tourist Attraction Displaying the Open Graves of Native Americans Became a State-Run Museum
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story was first published as part of ProPublica’s Repatriation Project newsletter, which follows our ongoing investigation into whether U.S. institutions are returning Native American ancestral remains. Sign up to get updates as they publish and learn more about our reporting.
The Illinois museum built on Native American burial mounds
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – The border economy continues its post-COVID-19 recovery, with manufacturing in Juarez being one of the main drivers. Juarez has created 19,000 new year-over-year jobs compared to El Paso, Texas’ 5,800 and Las Cruces’ 3,500, according to the latest monthly Paso del Norte Economic Indicator Review from the Hunt Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds
America’s institutions hold human remains and sacred items taken from the graves of tens of thousands of Native Americans. A federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, was meant to help return them, but decades after its 1990 passage, many tribes are still waiting. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This story is part of an ongoing series investigating the return of Native American ancestral remains.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
by Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu, ProPublica, and Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
Help Us Investigate Museums’ Failure to Return Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items
Do you know about how museums and other institutions are handling the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items under NAGPRA? We want to hear from you. Museums and other American institutions hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native American individuals and several hundred thousand funerary objects, despite a 1990 law requiring that they be “expeditiously” returned to tribes.
Behind ProPublica’s Reporting on Repatriation
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our other stories about repatriation. When ProPublica set out to report on Native American remains and cultural items held by U.S. institutions, we knew we would need to listen closely to Indigenous people and gather feedback. Repatriation can be a sensitive topic.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return despite the 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. “We never ceded or relinquished our dead.
America’s Biggest Museums Have Failed to Return Native American Human Remains
Skip to content Skip to footer Decades after a federal law called for them to be returned, more than 110,000 Native ancestors remain in collections. As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items.
America’s biggest museums fail to return Native American human remains
Works Progress Administration workers excavate a Native American burial mound in Kentucky at an unknown date. (University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center) “This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox .
America's Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return despite the 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. “We never ceded or relinquished our dead.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items.
America’s biggest museums fail to return Native American human remains
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government...
Help Us Investigate Museums’ Failure to Return Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items
Museums and other American institutions hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native American individuals and several hundred thousand funerary objects, despite a 1990 law requiring that they be “expeditiously” returned to tribes. ProPublica reported on how institutions amassed these remains in the context of violent colonization and created a tool allowing readers to explore the data. We’d like to hear from you to further our reporting.
Behind ProPublica’s Reporting on Repatriation
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our other stories about repatriation. When ProPublica set out to report on Native American remains and cultural items held by U.S. institutions, we knew we would need to listen closely to Indigenous people and gather feedback. Repatriation can be a sensitive topic.
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return despite the 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Listen to This Article “We never ceded or relinquished our dead.
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