PHOENIX - The federal government recently returned a collection of artifacts to anonymous members of Northern Arizona's Hopi Tribe. It involved a substantial expenditure of tax dollars, but the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe’s religious practices and return them to their original ...

PARIS (AP) – A U.S. charity says it has purchased 24 contested Native American artifacts from a French auction house in order to return them to tribes who sought to block their sale. The Los ...

PARIS — In a chaotic auction repeatedly interrupted by protests, dozens of American Indian tribal artifacts were sold Friday after a French court ignored the objections of the Hopi tribe and the U.S.

70 items scheduled to go up for auction next week in Paris are so sacred that Hopi people refuse to describe them. The auctioneers are calling them masks. Warren Olney former KCRW broadcaster ...

The oldest nonprofit serving Indian Country warned potential collectors this week about an upcoming auction of nearly 400 Indigenous cultural items, at least one of which it believes to be fake, and ...

CARBONDALE — From 1977 to 1983, Southern Illinois University Carbondale led a massive series of archaeological digs at Black Mesa, in Northern Arizona, where Peabody Energy leased land from the Navajo ...